{"product_id":"take-it-lying-down-finding-my-feet-after-a-spinal-cord-injury-9781589881358","title":"Take It Lying Down: Finding My Feet After a Spinal Cord Injury","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A stunning account.\"--\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This profoundly literate memoir of courage stuns and moves, and in its ferocious honesty, delights.\"--Mark Medoff, Oscar-nominated screenwriter of \u003ci\u003eChildren of a Lesser God\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTake It Lying Down\u003c\/i\u003e is \"a movingly intricate weave--a detailed and poetic chronicle of healing against all odds, an intense love story, a narrative of a young man's journey from Maine to New Mexico and adulthood, and a book of literary inspiration and wisdom . . . this is not a medical book, not a self-help book: it's a literate, occasionally theatrical, surprisingly buoyant, always philosophical and compelling journey through one man's life.\"―From the Foreword by Len Jenkin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSix months shy of retirement and on a family vacation in Mexico, Jim Linnell steps off the porch of a rented guest house and breaks his neck. He is medevacked to his hometown hospital in Albuquerque and from there to a spinal cord injury hospital in Denver, where he learns he may live the rest of his life as a quadriplegic. How does a person absorb such news?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJim's injury is incomplete: He has a two-year window for improvement. After three months of rehabilitation at the hospital, he and his wife, Jennifer, return to their home with an armada of equipment for his therapy, a heavy dose of anxiety about how they will manage together, and many unanswerable questions: Will Jim get better? What kind of future will they have? Can they move past denial to accept the possibility that Jim may remain a quadriplegic?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTake It Lying Down\u003c\/i\u003e portrays a man reclaiming his life from catastrophe--it is a book of exemplary courage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJim Linnell is a writer, teacher, and director. He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Theatre \u0026amp; Dance at the University of New Mexico and former Dean of the College of Fine Arts there. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eWalking on Fire: The Shaping Force of Emotion in Writing Drama\u003c\/i\u003e. His work has been performed in the U.S. and abroad in Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, and Israel. Linnell helped establish the MFA degree in Dramatic Writing at the University of New Mexico and an annual festival of new plays that now bears his name. He received his doctorate in directing from UC Berkeley. He and his wife live south of Albuquerque next to the Rio Grande; together they have three children and six grandchildren.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Paul Dry Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50357265465618,"sku":"9781589881358","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e2266572-8758-4c05-a999-f41e440df9af.jpg?v=1728322015","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/take-it-lying-down-finding-my-feet-after-a-spinal-cord-injury-9781589881358","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}