What a biography! As a mom I don"t agree with most of her mother's decisions but it's brilliant how she overcame all of it and became who she is today.

This book has made me think deeply about what and how much power our society attributes to physical looks. I caught myself multiple times wanting to hurl the book across the room because of Gies' parents and how they could be repeatedly putting her through the trauma of surgery. Do I understand their initial choice? Sure. Does that remove the fact that I am disappointed in our current society and how much we attribute to the way we physically present ourselves to our world? No. Gies truly made me think about the power of physical looks and how importance I unconsciously attribute to this aspect of life. Gies knows how to be concise and to the point to get to her message - and throughout that, she made me extremely reflective.