Comedy and tragedy: For actress, producer and TV writer Laura Chinn, they both begin with zits.
“I wasn’t aware of my face until there was something suddenly wrong with it. A small, white ball popped out of my right cheek and then, like magic, I realized I had a face,” Chinn writes in the opening of her new book, “Acne: A Memoir” (Hachette), which hit bookstores July 19.
But Chinn’s story – equal parts funny and poignant, often R-rated and always compulsively readable – is much more than a mere chronicle of ongoing battles with a skin condition. This coming-of-age memoir explores how a young woman forges her identity and learns to accept herself – and others – in a world that tells her there’s nowhere she belongs.
