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2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence Longlist Selection A Best Book of 2021 by Chicago Tribune, People, Real Simple, The Washington Post, and Time The extraordinary story of one woman?s ten-year medical and metaphysical odyssey that brought her physical, creative, emotional, and spiritual healing, by a MacArthur genius and two-time Pulitzer finalist.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 Bell?s palsy patients see spontaneous improvement and experience a full recovery. Like Ruhl?s 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