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01796aam a2200229 4500 001 D5EB562488D811ED85367DA34CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221231010016 008 220727s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 020 $a 1982150955 020 $a 9781982150952 040 $d TxAuBib $d SILO 100 1 $a Ruhl, Sarah. 245 1 $a Smile $h [Paperback] / $c By Sarah Ruhl. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Simon & Schuster, $c 2022. 300 $a 256 p. 500 $a With a play opening on Broadway, and every reason to smile, Sarah Ruhl has just survived a high-risk pregnancy when she discovers the left side of her face is completely paralyzed. She is assured that 90 percent of Bellâs palsy patients experience a full recoveryâlike Ruhlâs own mother. 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 faceâone that, while recognizably her ownâis incapable of accurately communicating feelings or intentions. In a series of piercing, profound, and lucid meditations, Ruhl chronicles her journey as a patient, wife, mother, and artist. She explores the struggle of a body yearning to match its inner landscape, the pain of postpartum depression, the story of a marriage, being a playwright and working mom to three small children, and the desire for a resilient spiritual life in the face of illness. 541 $d 20221206. 941 $a 2 952 $l SBPB074 $d 20240323013859.0 952 $l YAPC771 $d 20221231011555.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D5EB562488D811ED85367DA34CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search