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Smile : A Memoir by Sarah Ruhl; OverDrive, Inc is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Smile : A Memoir about?

The extraordinary story of one woman's ten-year medical and metaphysical odyssey that brought her physical, creative, emotional, and spiritual healing, by a MacArthur genius and two-time Pulitzer finalist. At the height of her career, with her first play opening on Broadway, and a happily married mother of three, Sarah Ruhl had just survived a high-risk twins pregnancy when she discovered the left side of her face completely paralyzed. She is assured that ninety percent of Bell's palsy patients see spontaneous improvement and experience a full recovery. Like Ruhl's own mother. Like Angelina Jolie. But Sarah is in the unlucky ten percent. And for a woman, wife, mother, and artist working in theater, the paralysis and the disconnect between the interior and exterior brings significant and specific challenges. So Ruhl begins an intense decade-long search for a cure while simultaneously grappling with the reality of her new face—one that, while recognizably her...

Who reads Smile : A Memoir?

Author

Sarah Ruhl; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

Scribner / Marysue Rucci Books

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781982150969

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Medical, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.4 / 5 (341 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14