The book club will be meeting September 27th at Alison's house. We will be reading two books this month. The first book, Truth and Beauty is about the friendship between Patchett and Grealy (the author of the second book). Please see the descriptions below.Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
"What happens when the person who is your family is someone you aren't bound to by blood? What happens when the person you promise to love and to honor for the rest of your life is not your lover, but your best friend? In Truth & Beauty, her frank and startling intimate first work of non-fiction, Ann Patchett shines a fresh, revealing light on the world of women's friendships and shows us what it means to stand together.
This is a tender, brutal book about loving a person we cannot save. It is about loyalty, and about being lifted up by the sheer effervescence of someone who knew how to live life to the fullest."
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
"At age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer. When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the cruel taunts of classmates. In this strikingly candid memoir, Grealy tells her story of great suffering and remarkable strength without sentimentality and with considerable wit. Vividly portraying the pain of peer rejection and the guilty pleasures of wanting to be special, Grealy captures with unique insight what it is like as a child and young adult to be torn between two warring impulses: to feel that more than anything else we want to be loved for who we are, while wishing desperately and secretly to be perfect."
