Nancy mairs waist high in the world6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Rich, startling and utterly absorbing.” - Kirkus Reviews, starred review “As helpful as Mairs’s book will be to disabled people, what’s most important about it is its lessons for able-bodied readers.” -Kathi Wolfe, The Progressive “Vintage Mairs: sharply observed, deeply personal and always direct.” -Michael Haederle, Los Angeles Times is what Mairs most wants us to ‘get’ in this passionate, penetrating book-and then get over.” -Marian Sandmeier, The Washington Post Book World “Woe is not her, as she makes clear throughout this absorbing, laceratingly honest book. The aim is the creation of joy.” -Bingham, The New Mexican Let the reader understand: this is not a book about MS, or about illness rather, it’s a chronicle of inspired adaptation, spiritual as well as physical, to limits. “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. ![]()
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