{"product_id":"a-certain-loneliness-a-memoir-9781496207197","title":"A Certain Loneliness: A Memoir","description":"After contracting polio as a child, Sandra Gail Lambert progressed from braces and crutches to a manual wheelchair to a power wheelchair--but loneliness has remained a constant, from the wild claustrophobia of a child in body casts to just yesterday, trapped at home, gasping from pain. \u003ci\u003eA Certain Loneliness\u003c\/i\u003e is a meditative and engaging memoir-in-essays that explores the intersection of disability, queerness, and female desire with frankness and humor. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Lambert presents the adventures of flourishing within a world of uncertain tomorrows: kayaking alone through swamps with alligators; negotiating planes, trains, and ski lifts; scoring free drugs from dangerous men; getting trapped in a too-deep snow drift without crutches. \u003ci\u003eA Certain Loneliness\u003c\/i\u003e is literature of the body, palpable and present, in which Lambert's lifelong struggle with isolation and independence--complete with tiresome frustrations, slapstick moments, and grand triumphs--are wound up in the long history of humanity's relationship to the natural world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSandra Gail Lambert\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer of both fiction and memoir. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe River's Memory\u003c\/i\u003e. She was awarded an NEA fellowship based on an excerpt from \u003ci\u003eA Certain Loneliness\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50504745910546,"sku":"9781496207197","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_87769931-6b72-4606-a3cd-04f9ad655042.jpg?v=1730826268","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-certain-loneliness-a-memoir-9781496207197","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}