Sandra Gail Lambert
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After contracting polio as a child, the author progressed from braces and crutches to a manual wheelchair to a power wheelchair--but loneliness has remained a constant, from the wild claustrophobia of a child in body casts to just yesterday, trapped at home, gasping from pain. This memoir-in-essays explores the intersection of disability, queerness, and female desire with frankness and humor. She presents the adventures of flourishing within a world...
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"My Withered Legs and Other Essays is a collection of personal essays by Sandra Gail Lambert which reflect upon her experience becoming a writer alongside discussions of disability, queerness, and aging. A seventy-year history of disability is threaded throughout these essays and intertwined with writing that celebrates lesbian love, explores the slapstick moments of life, and shares the obstacles and triumphs of becoming a writer later in life. The...
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"A woman born without legs spends her days swimming with manatees. Two artists, separated by centuries, guide each other's hands. And a child of the Florida frontier sits on the graves of her siblings to think about race relations and the habits of caterpillars. These are some of the women who live along the banks of a river where water billows from caverns of silent lakes. None of them are famous. None have children. Instead, their stories exist...
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When a biological weapon accident destroys Vic Riga's hometown and along with it her entire family, the United States is put on lockdown by the rest of the world. Disabled and queer, Vic had been glad to escape the claustrophobia and racism of the Florida fishing village where generations of her family had fished, smuggled, run drugs, and lived strangely long lives but now she has become the last of her people. Driven by survivors' guilt, Vic works
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