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Smile : the story of a face / Sarah Ruhl.

Author Ruhl, Sarah, 1974- author.

Description335 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Abstract:"Sarah Ruhl has just survived a high- risk pregnancy when she discovers the left side of her face is paralyzed. She is assured that 95 percent of Bell's palsy patients experience a full recovery. But Sarah is in the unlucky 5 percent. So Ruhl begins a decade-long search for a cure while grappling with the reality of her new face. In a series of meditations, Ruhl chronicles her journey. She explores the struggle of a body yearning to match its inner landscape, the pain postpartum depression, being a playwright and working mom to three small children, and the desire for a resilient spiritual life in the face of illness"-- Back cover.

ISBN:9781432892296 (large print ; hardcover)

ISBN:1432892290 (large print ; hardcover)

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Ruhl, Sarah, 1974- author.
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Subject: Topical Term
Facial paralysis -- Biography.
Dramatists, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
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Large print books.
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Thorndike Press large print biography and memoir