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Smile - The Story of a Face (Hardcover)
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Discovery Miles 4 490
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Smile - The Story of a Face (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R449
Discovery Miles 4 490
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The extraordinary story of one woman's ten-year odyssey that
brought her physical, creative, emotional, and spiritual healing.
With a play opening on Broadway, and every reason to smile, Sarah
Ruhl has just survived a high-risk pregnancy when she discovers the
left side of her face is completely paralyzed. She is assured that
90 percent of Bell's palsy patients experience a full recovery,
like her own mother. But Sarah is in the unlucky ten percent. And
for a woman, wife, mother, and artist working in theatre, the
paralysis and the disconnect between the interior and exterior
brings significant and specific challenges. So she begins an
intense decade-long search for a cure while simultaneously
grappling with the reality of her new face - one that, while
recognisably her own, is incapable of accurately communicating
feelings or intentions. Smile is Ruhl's piercing, witty, lucid
chronicle of her journey. She explores the struggle of a body
yearning to match its inner landscape, the pain of postpartum
depression, the story of a marriage, being a playwright and working
mother to three small children, and the desire for a resilient
spiritual life in the face of illness. Brimming with insight,
humility, warmth and humour, Smile is a triumph: an intimate
examination of loss and reconciliation, and above all else, the
importance of perseverance and hope in the face of adversity.
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