Tony Youn grew up up one of two Asian-American kids in a small town of near wall-to-wall whiteness.#xA0; Too tall and too thin,#xA0;he wore thick Coke-bottle glasses, braces, Hannibal Lecter headgear, and had a protruding jaw that one day began to grow, expanding Pinocchio-like, protruding to an unthinkable, monstrous size.#xA0; After high school graduation, while other seniors partied at the shore or exploredEurope,#xA0;Youn lay strapped in an oral surgeon#x19;s chair as he broke#xA0;his jaw, then reset it and wired it shut for six weeks. Ironically, it was this brutal makeover that led him to his life's calling -- and the four years of angst, flubs, triumphs, non-stop studying and intermittant heavy drinking that eventually earned him an M.D. Thanks to a#xA0;small circle of close friends and an#xA0;obsessive drive to overachieve ,Youn transformed from a shy, skinny, awkward nerd with no confidence and no clue into a renowned and successful plastic surgeon. In Stitchesis a heartfelt, candid, and laugh-out-loud memoir of one man's bumpy road to becoming a doctor and learning to be confortable in his own skin.