{"product_id":"waisthigh-in-the-world-isbn-9780807070871","title":"Waist-High in the World","description":"In a blend of intimate memoir and passionate advocacy, Nancy Mairs takes on the subject woven through all her writing: disability and its effect on life, work, and spirit.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. . . . 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. The aim is the creation of joy. -Sallie Bingham, \u003ci\u003eThe New Mexican\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Woe is not her, as she makes clear throughout this absorbing, laceratingly honest book. . . . This social construction of disability . . . is what Mairs most wants us to 'get' in this passionate, penetrating book-and then get over.\" -Marian Sandmeier, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Vintage Mairs: sharply observed, deeply personal and always direct.\" -Michael Haederle, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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, \u003ci\u003eThe Progressive\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Rich, startling and utterly absorbing.\" -\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews,\u003c\/i\u003e starred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mairs's physical view of the world may be waist-high, but her intellectual and spiritual range is limitless.\" -Donna Seaman, \u003ci\u003eBooklist,\u003c\/i\u003e starred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"'One sharp instrument is left me: my tongue.' This [Mairs] wields like a finely crafted baton, leading her readers to an ever deeper understanding of the human condition.\" -Yvonne Duffy, \u003ci\u003eDetroit Free Press\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNancy Mairs\u003c\/b\u003e is author of several acclaimed books, including \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Time, Carnal Acts, Remembering the Bone House,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePlaintext.\u003c\/i\u003e Visit Nancy Mairs' website: www.nancymairs.com.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303813140709,"sku":"NP9780807070871","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780807070871.jpg?v=1767743536","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/waisthigh-in-the-world-isbn-9780807070871","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}