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What is Poster Child : a Memoir about?

Emily Rapp was born with a congenital defect that required, at the age of four, that her left foot be amputated. By the time she was eight she'd had dozens of operations and her entire leg below the knee had been amputated. She had also become the smiling, always perky, indefatigable poster child for the March of Dimes, and spent much of her childhood traveling around the Midwest making appearances and giving pep talks. All the while she was learning to live with what she called "my grievous, irrevocable flaw," and the paradox that being extraordinary was the only way to be ordinary. Poster Child is Rapp's unflinching, brutally honest and often darkly humorous account of wrestling with the tyranny of self-image as a teenager and then ultimately coming to terms with her own body as a young woman. It's about what it's like to live inside a broken body in a society that values beauty above almost everything else.

Author

Emily Rapp Black

Publisher

New York: Bloomsbury: Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781596915053

Subjects

Social Science, Science, Memoir

Rating

3.64 / 5 (456 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14