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Lucy Grealy Journey

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I can imagine writing an autobiography about a life long journey filled with personal struggles and accomplishments can be difficult. Author, Lucy Grealy, tells her story in a vivid straight forward way, if you read closely and carefully. In the first chapter, we begin to learn background information as to how Lucy’s jaw came to the way it is. Throughout this book, I predict there will be countless situations where Grealy feels like an abstraction, and feels like she’s being judged by her appearance. As the pony party chapter continues, we have yet to see anyone have the courage to inquire what happened, and instead Lucy receives unwelcoming stares. This is just the beginning of her long journey. At first glance, the majority of people do

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