Face - by Marcia Meier (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>At age five, Marcia Meier was hit by a car, losing the left side of her face and eyelid. Over the next fifteen years she underwent twenty surgeries and spent days blinded by bandages, her hands tied to the sides of her hospital bed. Scarred both physically and emotionally, abused at school, blamed and rejected by her mother, Marcia survived and went on to create a successful life as a journalist, a wife and mother. But at midlife her controlled world began to fall apart, and Marcia began a journey into the darkness of her past, her true identity, her deepest beliefs - a spiritual and emotional exploration that resulted in the creation of Face.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p><em>...</em> a beautifully rendered examination of the long-term impact of childhood trauma. Meier's journey of recovery and growth is testimony to her strength of spirit, and her story will inspire every reader." - Hope Edelman, author of <em>Motherless Daughters, The Possibility of Everything</em>, and<em> The AfterGrief, Finding Your Way Along the Long Arc of Loss</em>.</p><p>... achingly, courageously explores the complex legacy of a terrible trauma to her face and her psyche at the age of five. In each page of this gripping story, Meier lifts from dark places of deep hurt multiple shards of emotion-charged memory, and, turning their facets in the healing light of contemplation, investigation, and imagination, she offers readers the benefit of her soul work: the transformation of rage and suffering into love and compassion.- Christine Hale, author of <em>A Piece of Sky, A Grain of Rice: A Memoir in Four Meditations</em></p><p>[After] a childhood and adolescence of ... reckoning with "the Marcia I lost"... as an adult she learned how it matters to know your "essence face" on the way to gaining openness and honesty and self-acceptance. This memorable account draws you into the story of how traumatic memory is not merely a long look into a mirror, but around the mirror and beyond. - Kevin McIlvoy, author of <em>One Kind Favor</em>, <em>At the Gate of All Wonder, 57 O</em>ctaves <em>Below Middle C, others.</em></p><p>"When a memoir -- "Face", by Marcia Meier -- is both harrowing and life-affirming, it will draw you into its story with a grip as fierce and strong as a hurricane. To literally lose your face, the image you project to the world that tells us who you are, and then have to rebuild both the physical face and the person it represents over a dozen years and countless painful, humiliating, and terrible operations, is an almost bottomless well of suffering, endurance, and ultimately, redemption. "Face" is a gut-wrenching and brave plumbing into a girl's heart and soul, and a triumph of guts and the human spirit." - Jerry Freedman, NYT bestselling author of The Deer Killer</em> and other novels.</p><br>
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