Bookworm, no. 96
Hollay Ghadery reviews Kate Gies’s “It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished.” Alexandra Oliver on Rebecca Salazar’s “Antibody.” Poetry by Tom Wayman. Inside the June issue.
Care Bare
It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished: A Memoir of My Body
Kate Gies
Simon & Schuster
336 pages, hardcover and ebook
It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished explores bodily autonomy, medical trauma, and self-acceptance. Kate Gies—born without a right ear and with skewed facial nerves and bones—tells her harrowing story through vignettes from her youth an…
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