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Moonface: A True Romance (2011)

by Angela Balcita(Favorite Author)

3.42 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0061537314 (ISBN13: 9780061537318)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Harper Perennial

review 1: When it comes to hope, Angela Balcita has more than most. First needing a kidney transplant as a teenager, and then again ten years after that, she was nothing less than brave. Receiving her first transplant from her brother and her second from her boyfriend (later turned husband), this story made me realize how there truly are good people out there in this big bad world, even today; willing to give of an organ so someone near and dear to them can have life extended says so much about their character. Through it all, Angela held fast to her own goals and dreams (graduating from college and having a baby). Her story reminded me that even in the midst of adversity, you can still overcome and find the blessing. Years later she needed one last transplant--this one from a frien... mored. Regardless of who lent a kidney to her, Angela was the epitome of thankful and humble, always reiterating her fascination with her fragility and how she didn't deserve most of the love that was sent her way. It served as a poignant reminder to me that even in the littlest of gestures, someone can be affected. Little to her brother/boyfriend/friend offer a kidney; ever-so-huge to her.
review 2: Apparently expanded from Angela's Balcita's "Modern Love" column in the NY Times, this memoir is a bit scattered and suffers from not being in chronological order. But Balcita -- who has a MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa -- is a good writer and shares the story about her kidney disease and transplant (from her boyfriend) with unflinching honesty, with the love between the duo clearly evident on each page. less

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