Greg Marshall tells his own story with such vulnerability, honesty, and good humor. He writes of his experience growing up gay in Utah in the 1990s while also struggling with "tight tendons" that turn out to be a manifestation of cerebral palsy. This book is thought-provoking and often laugh-out-loud funny.
Leg is Greg Marshall’s “riotous” (People) and “witty” (USA Today) memoir grappling with family, disability, and coming of age in two closets—as a gay man and as a man living with cerebral palsy.
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Greg Marshall’s early years were pretty bizarre. Rewind the VHS tapes (this is the ‘90s) and you’ll see a lopsided teenager limping across a high school stage, or in a wheelchair after leg surgeries, pondering why he’s crushing on half of the Utah Jazz.…
Suzanne Ohlmann tells her own story with heart and humor. This is an insightful memoir of Suzanne coming to terms with her past after being adopted by a family that never felt like her own. She tries to build a relationship with her birth mother - once she finds her - and grieves for the father she'll never know. This book is for anyone who has struggled to understand and define their own identity -- or who just wants to read a great story.
With her feet firmly rooted on the plains of Nebraska, Suzanne Ohlmann launches the reader into flight over miles and decades of migration: from an apple-pie childhood in America's Fourth of July City to the dirt floors of a cowshed in rural India, we zigzag across time and geography to see the world through Ohlmann's eyes and to discover with her the pain she'd been avoiding through her boomerang travels away from her native home.
Through incarnations as a musician, arts manager, and registered nurse, Ohlmann finally lands in Texas, buys a house, and gets a dog. But her house…
It is so well-written and engaging! Dr. Gonzalez is a natural-born storyteller who has a lot of great material to work with from his childhood in Cuba to his agonizing move to New Jersey as an adolescent. A wonderful memoir!
He leaves his birthplace during a nuclear missile crisis. As a refugee in a foreign land he struggles to adjust to a new set of life circumstances. The author recollects his childhood in his Cuban barrio from the eyes of a child, and then decades later, from the vantage of a grown adult. From stealing a rowboat and being nearly capsized by a Russian tanker, to befriending an old fisherman who tells him a haunting tale, to being bullied by a neighborhood thug, to cockfights gone wrong, to witnessing the plight of political prisoners during an invasion, to dealing with…
Up the Down Escalator is a story of triumph in the face of a terrifying diagnosis. A memoir of before and after, Lisa Doggett recounts her shift from doctor to patient with multiple sclerosis while directing a clinic for people without insurance. She battles insurance companies and experiments with odd diets and therapies. Forever furious with the dysfunctional and inequitable health care system, she also renews her commitment to advocate for her underserved patients.
This memoir is a bitter, front-line critique of U.S. health care. But it is also a story of hope, as Doggett learns to soften her inner drill sergeant and push past her limits. This book inspires those with chronic disease—and all readers—to seek wisdom and meaning in life’s challenges.
