![]() "'One sharp instrument is left me: my tongue.' This wields like a finely crafted baton, leading her readers to an ever deeper understanding of the human condition. "Mairs's physical view of the world may be waist-high, but her intellectual and spiritual range is limitless." -Donna Seaman, Booklist, starred review "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 Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled Mairs, Nancy on. ![]() "Vintage Mairs: sharply observed, deeply personal and always direct." -Michael Haederle, Los Angeles Times Waist High In the World is a novel that focuses on the importance of accepting everyone with dignity and respect despite their disabilities and differences. is what Mairs most wants us to 'get' in this passionate, penetrating book-and then get over." -Marian Sandmeier, The Washington Post Book World Troubled Guest: Life and Death Stories, was supported by a fellowship. ![]() "Woe is not her, as she makes clear throughout this absorbing, laceratingly honest book. and Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled. 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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