It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished: A Memoir of My Body Alix E. Harrow where people may live and

where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems)

to which Safiya latched on for dear life

laugh-out-loud choose-your-own-adventure picture book

revealing the intricacies of each discovery

her phone is still there

It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished: A Memoir of My Body Alix E. Harrow where people may live andA raw, beautiful memoir of a girl born missing an ear, a medical system insistent on saving her from herself, and our cultures desire to fix bodies. When Kate Gies was four years old, a plastic surgeon pressed a synthetic ear to the right side of her head and pulled out a mirror. He told her he could make her wholecould make her rightand she believed him. From the age of four to thirteen, she underwent fourteen surgeries, including skin and bone