Madeleine Sauter
Mrs. Vermillion
AP English 11
3 October 2015
Truth and Beauty Summary Ann Patchett’s memoir, Truth and Beauty, details her long lived friendship with Lucy Grealy. The two women attended the same university, both studying to become writers, though their journey together would not begin there. Lucy was well known, being easily recognized by her small frame and her disfigured face that had been mangled by her cancer ridden childhood with chemotherapy that forced her to sacrifice her external beauty, an ordinary life, and a large portion of her lower jaw. Her visage, as well as her writing, enabled her to be well recognized by many, though seldom truly known. Upon being accepted into grad school, Ann planned on venturing to her new city of residence in search of an apartment. Lucy, who also was nearing her time to attend the same school as Ann once again, and whose finances were crippled by her medical expenses, asked Ann to look for a place for her as well, as she could not afford the trip. This was Ann’s first time hearing from Lucy, after four years of schooling. Neither could sufficiently fund housing, so Ann took a risk and rented an apartment for the two of them to share. Their story began here, with Lucy …show more content…
Their works, as did their lives, complimented one another so fervently that they soon became indistinguishable from the others’, brain storming story ideas and claiming sentences the other had written but had no use for, traveling to the ends of the earth to reunite, and finding themselves better reflected in the opposite than what any mirror could have shown them. They learned from one another, about writing, love, and how to handle