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Truth & Beauty, Ann's first work of nonfiction is available in paperback! Truth & Beauty is a tender, brutal book about loving the person we cannot save. It is about loyalty, and being lifted up by the sheer effervescence of someone who knew how to live life to the fullest.

In Truth & Beauty, Ann pays tribute to her dear friend and acclaimed writer, Lucy Grealy, who died in 2002. A haunting account of their powerful friendship, Truth & Beauty introduces a new level of Ann's writing, bearing the same sensitivity and grace as her fictional works.

I do not remember our love unfolding, that we got to know one another and in time became friends. I only remember that she came through the door and it was there, huge and permanent and first. I felt I had been chosen by Lucy and I was thrilled. I was twenty-one years old and very strong. She had a habit of pitching herself into my arms like a softball without any notice. She liked to be carried. — from Truth & Beauty