A Great Review of Face on Brevity!

Many thanks to the incredible Lisa Rizzo for this beautiful review on the Brevity magazine blog. And thanks, too, to Dinty Moore and reviews editor Debbie Hagan. Here’s an excerpt:

“Many of the book’s chapters open with epigraphs using excerpts from the surgeon’s notes of her procedures. In much the same way that Joan Didion returns again and again to her husband’s heart attack in her memoir The Year of Magical Thinking, these notes create a circular pattern, returning to the little girl in her hospital bed before spiraling into future events. The repetition of medical terms reminds the reader of the terror Meier as a child must have endured, even as she deals with how that suffering influenced the adult she became.”

You can read the entire review here.