The release date for the English version of 'Truth & Beauty' by
Ann Patchett is May 2023. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
After joining the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Ann Patchett and the late Lucy Grealy struck up a relationship that would prove to be just as important to their lives as their artistic collaborations. They met in college in 1981. Grealy writes about losing a portion of her jaw due to childhood cancer, enduring years of chemotherapy and radiation treatment, and undergoing several reconstructive operations in her highly praised book Autobiography of a Face. The common aspects of Lucy and Ann's lives, rather than their individual lives, are the focus of Truth and Beauty. This is a twenty-year depiction of unshakable dedication that takes place in surgical wards, book parties in New York, and the harsh winters of the Midwest. This is what it means to be a part of two lives that are entwined—and what happens when one is left behind—through love, fame, drugs, and misery.