Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It
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* A GREAT SUMMER READ * Washington Post * People * USA Today * Esquire * Buzzfeed * Huffington Post * Bustle * The Advocate...
* A GREAT SUMMER READ * Washington Post * People * USA Today * Esquire * Buzzfeed * Huffington Post * Bustle * The Advocate * and many more! *
"A riotous new memoir . . . A hilarious yet loving account, this book has charm for days." --PEOPLE
"A witty . . . insightful story of identity and complex family dynamics." --USA TODAY
"Leg is intimate (and I mean that in all ways), insightful, and often laugh-out-loud funny." --SCOTT SIMON, NPR's "Weekend Edition" A hilarious and poignant memoir grappling with family, disability, and coming of age in two closets--as a gay man and as a man living with cerebral palsy
Greg Marshall's early years were pretty bizarre. Rewind the VHS tapes (this is the nineties) 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. Add to this home video footage a mom clacking away at her newspaper column between chemos, a dad with ALS, and a cast of foulmouthed siblings. Fast forward the tape and you'll find Marshall happily settled into his life as a gay man only to discover he's been living in another closet his whole life: He has cerebral palsy, a diagnosis that has been kept from him since birth. (His parents always told him he just had "tight tendons" and left it at that.) Here, in the hot mess of it all, lies Greg Marshall's wellspring of wit and wisdom. Leg is an extraordinarily funny and insightful memoir from a daring new voice. Packed with outrageous stories of a singular childhood, it is also a startlingly original examination of what it means to transform when there are parts of yourself you can't change, a moving portrait of a family in crisis, and a tale of resilience of spirit. In Marshall's deft hands, we see a story both personal and universal--of being young and wanting the world, even when the world doesn't feel like yours to want.
Author: Greg Marshall
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: 06/13/2023
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.35h x 5.75w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9781419763601
Review Citation(s):
Foreword 04/27/2023
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2023
BookPage 06/01/2023
About the Author
Greg Marshall was raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in Prose, Marshall is a graduate of the Michener Center for Writers. His work has appeared in The Best American Essays and been supported by MacDowell and the Corporation of Yaddo. Leg is his first book.
"A riotous new memoir . . . A hilarious yet loving account, this book has charm for days." --PEOPLE
"A witty . . . insightful story of identity and complex family dynamics." --USA TODAY
"Leg is intimate (and I mean that in all ways), insightful, and often laugh-out-loud funny." --SCOTT SIMON, NPR's "Weekend Edition" A hilarious and poignant memoir grappling with family, disability, and coming of age in two closets--as a gay man and as a man living with cerebral palsy
Greg Marshall's early years were pretty bizarre. Rewind the VHS tapes (this is the nineties) 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. Add to this home video footage a mom clacking away at her newspaper column between chemos, a dad with ALS, and a cast of foulmouthed siblings. Fast forward the tape and you'll find Marshall happily settled into his life as a gay man only to discover he's been living in another closet his whole life: He has cerebral palsy, a diagnosis that has been kept from him since birth. (His parents always told him he just had "tight tendons" and left it at that.) Here, in the hot mess of it all, lies Greg Marshall's wellspring of wit and wisdom. Leg is an extraordinarily funny and insightful memoir from a daring new voice. Packed with outrageous stories of a singular childhood, it is also a startlingly original examination of what it means to transform when there are parts of yourself you can't change, a moving portrait of a family in crisis, and a tale of resilience of spirit. In Marshall's deft hands, we see a story both personal and universal--of being young and wanting the world, even when the world doesn't feel like yours to want.
Author: Greg Marshall
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: 06/13/2023
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.35h x 5.75w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9781419763601
Review Citation(s):
Foreword 04/27/2023
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2023
BookPage 06/01/2023
About the Author
Greg Marshall was raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in Prose, Marshall is a graduate of the Michener Center for Writers. His work has appeared in The Best American Essays and been supported by MacDowell and the Corporation of Yaddo. Leg is his first book.