Sallie Bingham - The New Mexican
Graceful yet gritty paradoxes drive this extraordinary book, which uses the author's degenerative disease, multiple sclerosis, as a window into a very particular
soul....Let the reader understand: this is not a book about MS, or illness; rather, it's a chronicle of inspired adaption, spiritual as well as physical...The
aim is the creation of joy.
Donna Seaman - Booklist
Mairs's physical view of the world may be waist-high, but her intellectual and spiritual range is limitless.
Kathy Wolfe - The Progressive
As helpful as Mairs's book will be to disable people, what's most important about it is its lessons for able-bodied readers.
Marian Sandmeier - The Washington Post Book World
Woe is not her, as she makes clear throughout this absorbing, laceratingly honest book....This social construction of disability...is what Mairs most wants
us to "get" in this passionate, penetrating book-and then get over.
Michael Haederle - Los Angeles Times
Vintage Mairs: sharply observed, deeply personal and always direct.
