It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished: A Memoir of My Body Stonewall Book Award Transforming into superhero ThunderBoom

Transforming into superhero ThunderBoom

Collins explores boyhood

and no more time for undead nonsense

and to find the truth about his killing

It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished: A Memoir of My Body Stonewall Book Award Transforming into superhero ThunderBoomA 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