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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 she’d 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 “my grievous, irrevocable flaw,” and the paradox
that being extraordinary was the only way to be ordinary.
Poster Child is Rapp’s 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. It’s about what
it’s like to live inside a broken body in a society that
values beauty above almost everything else.
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