Christoph Keller Every Cripple a Superhero Paperback Book

Fascinating ... compelling ... very funny Sunday TimesA defiant call to arms ... affecting ... lingers long in the memory after its final page Morning StarA skilful act of literary witness, sharp, moving and funny Joanne Limburg Christoph Keller ... ranks among the great Swiss writers Neue Zrcher ZeitungMost stories of disability follow a familiar pattern Life Before Accident. Life After Accident. For 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 Walking Me. Rolling Me. By 32, he could still walk into a restaurant with a cane or on somebodys arm. At 45, Rolling Me took over altogether. Intimate, absurdist and winningly frank, Every Cripple a Superhero is 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, aeroplanes, museums and artists retreats in a world not designed for you. Threaded throughout are Kellers own photographs of the unexpected beauty found in puddlefilled 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 ... | Christoph Keller Every Cripple a Superhero Paperback Book