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Smile: The Story of a Face, by Sarah Ruhl

Smile records Sarah Ruhl’s coming to terms with her new face and the conundrums it presents — after the playwright wondered for ten years whether the story deserved to live on the page.

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Smile records Sarah Ruhl’s coming to terms with her new face and the conundrums it presents — after the playwright wondered for ten years whether the story deserved to live on the page.