Marked for Life

About the Book

About the Author

Joie Davidow co-founded L.A. Weekly and founded L.A. Style magazine. She edited the anthologies Las Mamis and Las Christmas with Esmeralda Santiago and is the author of Infusions of Healing and I Wouldn’t Leave Rome to Go to Heaven. She lives in Rome, Italy, where she edits an online magazine, www.InRomeNow.com, which she founded with Vickki Ericks. “Like an odalisque shedding her veils, Joie’s writing dances in this memoir to reveal the carefully kept secret of her birthmark. This is an inspiring story and a vivid reminder that there is more to beauty than a flawless face.” Ciocanda Belli, author of The Country Under My Skin and The Inhabited Woman