Summary Of Alyssa Sheinmel's Faceless

Introduction
In Faceless, author Alyssa Sheinmel tells the story of a teenage girl named Maisie who got burned in a freak accident, caused by lightening striking a tree and the resultant fire while she was running. The burn melted almost half of her face off, which included her left cheek, chin, and nose. She was given the choice of having an experimental face transplant or facing years of skin grafts and reconstructive surgeries. With twisted luck, a girl in New Zealand is killed in a car accident, providing the donor tissue. After Maisie gets the new face, she has to decide whether she should have half a face for the rest of her life and look like a “monster” or risk getting the face transplant like a total stranger to her family, friends, and peers. With numerous questions and thoughts roaming through Maisie’s head she finally agrees to the transplant. After the face transplant, Maisie comes home, looking and feeling different.

Key Idea 1 What is a facial transplant? A face transplant is a medical procedure to replace all of or part of a person’s face using tissue from a cadaver, or a corpse. It is the moving of skin, blood vessels, nerves, bone, muscle and other supportive structures from a donor to a candidate.
What is a skin graft, you ask? It is a surgical procedure that involves removing the skin from one area of the body and moving it to a different area of the body. This surgery may be done if a part of your body has lost its protective covering of skin due to burns, injury, or illness. Maisie would have had a full-thickness graft, which involves the removal of muscles and blood vessels in addition to the top two layers of skin from the donor site. Full-thickness grafts are generally used for small wounds on highly visible parts of the body, such as the face. Unlike split-level thickness grafts, full-thickness grafts blend in well with the skin around them and usually grow with the