It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished History and painfully earnest declarations of

and painfully earnest declarations of love

Raised by a fierce aunt determined to give her a stable home in the wake of her mother’s death

But when they learn of an impending royal visit

The Barnes family is in trouble

mysterious

It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished History and painfully earnest declarations ofA raw, beautiful memoir of a girl born missing an ear, a medical system insistent on saving her from herself, and our cultures desire to fix bodies. When Kate Gies was four years old, a plastic surgeon pressed a synthetic ear to the right side of her head and pulled out a mirror. He told her he could make her wholecould make her rightand she believed him. From the age of four to thirteen, she underwent fourteen surgeries, including skin and bone