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Gallery Books
May 2011
On Sale: April 26, 2011
Featuring: Tony Youn
291 pages
ISBN: 1451608446
EAN: 9781451608441
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Tony Youn grew up up one of two Asian-American kids in a
small town of near wall-to-wall whiteness. Too tall and too
thin, he wore thick Coke-bottle glasses, braces, Hannibal
Lecter headgear, and had a protruding jaw that one day began
to grow, expanding Pinocchio-like, protruding to an
unthinkable, monstrous size. After high school graduation,
while other seniors partied at the shore or explored Europe,
Youn lay strapped in an oral surgeon’s chair as he broke his
jaw, then reset it and wired it shut for six weeks. Ironically, it was this brutal makeover that led him to his
life's calling — and the four years of angst, flubs,
triumphs, non-stop studying and intermittent heavy drinking
that eventually earned him an M.D. Thanks to a small circle
of close friends and an obsessive drive to overachieve, Youn
transformed from a shy, skinny, awkward nerd with no
confidence and no clue into a renowned and successful
plastic surgeon. In Stitches is a heartfelt, candid, and laugh-out-loud
memoir of one man's bumpy road to becoming a doctor and
learning to be comfortable in his own skin.
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