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Bezig met laden... Poster Child: A Memoir (editie 2007)door Emily Rapp
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.   ) Narshkite | Mar 31, 2022 |  Emily is a little girl on a pretty bike with training wheels. Her red hair is long. She looks like a fun but girly girl wearing white lacy socks and white sandals. But there is one thing amiss in the photo–the girl has an artificial leg. I read Emily’s book not long after reading Lucy Grealy’s memoir. Both are about childhoods filled with surgeries and medical problems. In this case, Emily’s foot was amputated by doctors as a treatment for proximal femoral focal deficiency (PFFD). This memoir pulled me in because the voice is that of a friend, and she tells her story with honesty, humility, and intelligence. This book is so graceful and appears as if it has written itself. But I now know better. A lot of hard work went into making it all look simple. Rapp didn’t spend that much time writing it either. And her degree was in theology, not writing. She graduated from Divinity School at age 23. So impressive. (  ) LuanneCastle | Mar 5, 2022 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Emily Rapp was born with a birth defect that required, at the age of four, that her left foot be amputated. By the time she was eight she'd had dozens of operations and had lost her entire leg from just above the knee. She had also become the smiling, always perky, indefatigable poster child for the March of Dimes, and spent much of her childhood traveling around Wyoming making appearances and giving pep talks. All the while she was learning to live with what she later called "my grievous, irrevocable flaw." This is Rapp's brutally honest and often darkly humorous account of wrestling with the tyranny of self-image as a teenager and then ultimately coming to terms with her own body as a young woman. It's about what it's like to live inside a broken body in a society that values beauty above almost everything else.--From publisher description. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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