Face is an unforgettable story of childhood trauma and abuse, identity, and faith. At age five, Marcia Meier was hit by a car, losing the left side of her face and eyelid. Over the next fifteen years she underwent twenty surgeries and spent days blinded by bandages, her hands tied to the sides of her hospital bed. Scarred both physically and emotionally, abused at school, blamed and rejected by her mother, Marcia survived and went on to create a successful life as a journalist, a wife and mother. But at midlife her controlled world began to fall apart, and Marcia began a journey into the darkness of her past, her true identity, her deepest beliefs – a spiritual and emotional exploration that resulted in the creation of Face.

From Kirkus: “Over the course of this memoir, Meier presents an admirably forthcoming account that’s as deeply thoughtful as it is poignant. She effectively reveals how, after years of therapy, she felt compelled to completely rethink many different aspects of her life, including the Christian spirituality that she inherited from her parents and subsequently abandoned. Moreover, she writes with sense of ruminative calm in a style that’s one part analytical rigor and one part poetical expression. It’s a philosophically searching memoir, and it’s emotionally stirring, as well—a profoundly personal work that should resonate with anyone who’s wrestled with trauma and its aftermath...An engagingly thoughtful and affecting remembrance.”

"Face" has won the memoir/autobiography division of the 2021 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards.