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A Memoir
Bloomsbury Publishing
January 2007
On Sale: December 26, 2006
240 pages
ISBN: 1596912561
EAN: 9781596912564
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Emily Rapp was born with a congenital defect that required, at the age of four, that her left foot be amputated. By the time she was eight sheβd had dozens of operations and her entire leg below the knee had been amputated. She had also become the smiling, always perky, indefatigable poster child for the March of Dimes, and spent much of her childhood traveling around the Midwest making appearances and giving pep talks. All the while she was learning to live with what she called βmy grievous, irrevocable flaw,β and the paradox that being extraordinary was the only way to be ordinary. Poster Child is Rappβs unflinching, brutally honest and often darkly humorous account of wrestling with the tyranny of self-image as a teenager and then ultimately coming to terms with her own body as a young woman. Itβs about what itβs like to live inside a broken body in a society that values beauty above almost everything else.
 Media BuzzFresh Air - NPR - January 16, 2007
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