Exploring disfigurement and self-worth
An excerpt from Rearranged: An Opera Singer’s Facial Cancer And Life Transposed.
In the usual post-op haze after reconstructive surgery, in a wide-open, multi-bed recovery room partitioned by wavy muslin walls, I heard one strangled sentence rise above the racket of skittering curtain hooks.
“Honey, I’m a monster!”
My gaze swiveled toward a …




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