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100 1  Ruhl, Sarah,|d1974-|eauthor. 
245 10 Smile :|bthe story of a face /|cSarah Ruhl. 
250    First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. 
264  1 New York :|bSimon & Schuster,|c2021. 
264  4 |c©2021  
300    241 pages :|billustrations ; 23 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-241). 
520    "In this poignant and deeply intimate memoir, Sarah Ruhl 
       chronicles her experience with Bell's palsy after giving 
       birth to twins. At night, I dreamed that I could smile. 
       The smile felt effortless in my dreams, the way it did in 
       my childhood. Happily married and in the flush of hard-
       earned professional success, with her first play opening 
       on Broadway, Sarah Ruhl has just survived a high risk 
       pregnancy and given birth to twins when she discovers the 
       left side of her face entirely paralyzed. Bell's palsy. 
       Ninety percent of Bell's palsy sufferers see spontaneous 
       improvement and full recovery. Like Ruhl's mother. Like 
       Angelina Jolie. But not like Sarah Ruhl. Sarah Ruhl is in 
       the unlucky ten percent. Like Allen Ginsberg. But for a 
       woman, a mother, a wife, and an artist working in the 
       realm of 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 
       own-is incapable of accurately communicating feelings or 
       intentions. In a series of searing, witty, and lucid 
       meditations, Ruhl chronicles her journey as a patient, 
       mother, wife, and artist. She details the struggle of a 
       body yearning to match its inner landscape, the pain post-
       partum depression, the joys and trials of marriage and 
       being a playwright and a mother to three tiny children, 
       and the desire for a resilient spiritual life in the face 
       of difficulty. Brimming with insight, humility, and levity,
       SMILE is a triumph by one of the leading playwrights in 
       America. It is about loss and reconciliation, perseverance
       and hope. The Hollywood pitch would be Joan Didion meets 
       Ann Lamott with a little Nora Ephron for good measure"--
       |cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Ruhl, Sarah,|d1974- 
600 17 Ruhl, Sarah,|d1974-|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01928697 
648  7 2000-2099|2fast 
650  0 Facial paralysis|vBiography. 
650  0 Dramatists, American|y21st century|vBiography. 
650  7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.|2bisacsh  
650  7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.|2bisacsh  
650  7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical (incl. Patients).
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650  7 Dramatists, American.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00897556 
650  7 Facial paralysis.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00919601 
655  7 Autobiographies.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01919894 
655  7 Biographies.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01919896 
655  7 Autobiographies.|2lcgft 
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