{"product_id":"saving-face-a-memoir-9783988320490","title":"Saving Face: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cstrong\u003eThis author goes where no other might dare\u003c\/strong\u003e.\" Catherine Filloux, award-winning playwright \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat's in a smile? Or the absent smile? Saving Face is Effy Redman's thought-provoking answer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn with a rare condition of facial paralysis called Moebius Syndrome, Redman's grit and eye for beauty help her survive childhood bullying and adolescent doldrums. Her physical transformation at age thirteen via plastic surgery eviscerates her concept of image, just in time for her and her family to immigrate from hardscrabble Manchester, England to America's disorientingly scenic upstate New York. Not until diagnosis in young adulthood with bipolar disorder does Redman come out of the closet as a lesbian, finally claiming her most inherent identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSaving Face\u003c\/em\u003e is a searing personal tribute to anybody who has ever felt like an outsider. This memoir honors the grace of a face that stands out in a crowd, defying societal beauty norms. Disability meets transcendence, suffering becomes hope, and the individual expands into community. The inability to smile, in Redman's book, lights a window onto the human capacity for redemption.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Effy Redman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vine Leaves Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/19\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.74d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783988320490\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRedman, Effy:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Effy Redman's writing investigates the intersection of disability and identity. She has work published in The New York Times, Vice, Ravishly, Chronogram, Berkeley Poetry Review, and Iron Horse Literary Review, among other places. She holds an MFA in Memoir from CUNY: Hunter College, where she received an Honorable Mention for the Helen Gray Cone Fellowship, and a BA in Literature\/Drama from Bennington College, where she was an Ellen Knowles Harcourt Scholar and a Bennington Scholar. Visit: effyredman.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vine Leaves Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43169189593203,"sku":"9.78399E+12","price":27.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_15786a9d-0354-4330-adfc-fe8590a3140e.jpg?v=1751459983","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/saving-face-a-memoir-9783988320490","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}