{"product_id":"its-just-nerves-notes-on-a-disability-9781941960066","title":"It's Just Nerves: Notes on a Disability","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith equal parts wit and empathy, lived experience and cultural criticism, Kelly Davio's \u003cem\u003eIt's Just Nerves: Notes on a Disability\u003c\/em\u003e explores what it means to live with an illness in our contemporary culture, whether at home or abroad.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"When the body attacks itself, the crisis is not just of bones and blood, but of beauty and boundaries. 'Strange men have had their hands on me for days, ' Kelly Davio observes during a plasma treatment. Her skillful portrait of myasthenia gravis does not exist in a vacuum. It's Just Nerves is in keen dialogue with the world around us--critiquing modern health care, pub seating etiquette, alarming election outcomes, smarmy meditation culture, and caricatures of illness in ads and on screen. 'Oxygen is delicious, ' Davio reminds us, before the fire breaks out. A brisk, funny, and at times startlingly poetic memoir.\" --Sandra Beasley, author of \u003cem\u003eDon't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Kelly Davio's It's Just Nerves feels like the book I've been waiting for all my life. If you want to know what it feels like to be a person with a disability in the 21st century, read this book. From mindfulness to yoga pants, Davio skewers ableist fabrications and brings us to a vital, ebullient, and sometimes terrifying reckoning with our real and shared human experience. She is a very funny writer and also a fearless one. Once I started reading these essays, I couldn't put them down; they resounded through me like poetry or truth.\" --Sheila Black, author of \u003cem\u003eHouse of Bone\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLove\/Iraq\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Kelly Davio's got so much ​incredible ​stuff brewing together on every page of these nimble, shapeshifting essays: meditations on the politics of illness​, ​the body in crisis, the spirit in ​bloom, David Bowie--all of it filtered, carefully, through the lithe sensibility of a poet. ​​The results are equal parts witty and wise, heartrending and rapturous. Man, I loved this book.\" --Mike Scalise, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Brand New Catastrophe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKelly Davio is the author of \u003cem\u003eBurn This House\u003c\/em\u003e. She lives and writes in New Jersey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Squares \u0026 Rebels","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50545277862162,"sku":"9781941960066","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_026c3485-2216-4558-9130-683bf6bc00db.jpg?v=1731544420","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/its-just-nerves-notes-on-a-disability-9781941960066","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}