{"product_id":"every-cripple-a-superhero-paperback","title":"Every Cripple a Superhero - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristoph Keller\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn intimate, eye-opening exploration of thetrials - and joys - of life with a progressive disability\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Most stories of disability follow a familiar pattern: \u003ci\u003eLife Before Accident. Life After Accident. \u003c\/i\u003eFor Christoph Keller, it was different: his childhood diagnosis with a form of Spinal Muscular Atrophy only revealed what had been with him since birth. SMA III, the 'kindest one', allows those who have it to live a long life, and it progresses slowly. There is no cure. By the age of 25, he had to use a wheelchair some of the time. 'There were two of me: \u003ci\u003eWalking Me. Rolling Me.\u003c\/i\u003e' By 32, he could still walk into a restaurant with a cane or on somebody's arm. At 45, 'Rolling Me' took over altogether. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Intimate, absurdist and winningly frank, \u003ci\u003eEvery Cripple a Superhero \u003c\/i\u003eis at once a memoir of life with a progressive disorder, and a profound exploration of the challenges of loving, being loved, and living a public life - navigating restaurants, airplanes, museums and artists' retreats - in a world not designed for you. Threaded throughout are Keller's own photographs of the unexpected beauty found in puddle-filled 'curb cuts', the pavement ramps that, left to disintegrate, form part of the urban obstacle course. Those puddles become portals into a different, truer city; and, as they do, so this book - told with humor and immense grace - begins to uncover a truer world: one where the 'normal' is not normal, where disability is far more widespread than we might think, and where there always exist, just alongside our own, the lives of everyday superheroes.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Switzerland, \u003cb\u003e Christoph Keller\u003c\/b\u003e is a novelist, memoirist and editor. His books include the bestselling 2003 memoir-novel \u003ci\u003eDer beste T舅zer \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eThe Best Dancer\u003c\/i\u003e) and 2019's \u003ci\u003eDer Boden unter den F?en \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eThe Ground Beneath Our Feet\u003c\/i\u003e; winner of the Alemannic Literature Prize). Based for many years in New York City, he now lives in St Gallen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.4 x 4.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 19, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42696941895743,"sku":"9781802060997","price":22.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/3cd772cd2e2fc7ba5c47fa931608beff.webp?v=1765007877","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/every-cripple-a-superhero-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}