In this newsletter, you will find books releasing the weeks of October 25th and November 1st that we think will be of interest to Bookreporter.com readers, along with Bonus News, where we call out a contest, feature or review that we want to let you know about so you have it on your radar.
This week, we are calling attention to our review of SMILE: The Memoir of a Face, the extraordinary story of Sarah Ruhl's 10-year medical and metaphysical odyssey that brought her physical, creative, emotional and spiritual healing. According to our reviewer Sarah Rachel Egelman, "Ruhl is an honest storyteller who is unafraid to share the intimate and the humorous particulars of her life with Bell’s palsy. In the end, the book transcends this diagnosis and becomes a rumination on the wisdom found in literature and in friendship, the force of religious belief and spiritual seeking, the magic of long-lasting romantic love, the fragile, powerful joy of motherhood, and the importance of being kind and loving to oneself."