A woman's fight to reclaim her body after a paralysis-inducing
cycling accident In the early evening on October 1, 2003, Christina
Crosby was three miles into a seventeen mile bicycle ride, intent
on reaching her goal of 1,000 miles for the riding season. She was
a respected senior professor of English who had celebrated her
fiftieth birthday a month before. As she crested a hill, she caught
a branch in the spokes of her bicycle, which instantly pitched her
to the pavement. Her chin took the full force of the blow, and her
head snapped back. In that instant, she was paralyzed. In A Body,
Undone, Crosby puts into words a broken body that seems beyond the
reach of language and understanding. She writes about a body shot
through with neurological pain, disoriented in time and space,
incapacitated by paralysis and deadened sensation. To address this
foreign body, she calls upon the readerly pleasures of narrative,
critical feminist and queer thinking, and the concentrated language
of lyric poetry. Working with these resources, she recalls her
1950s tomboy ways in small-town, rural Pennsylvania, and records
growing into the 1970s through radical feminism and the
affirmations of gay liberation. Deeply unsentimental, Crosby
communicates in unflinching prose the experience of "diving into
the wreck" of her body to acknowledge grief, and loss, but also to
recognize the beauty, fragility, and dependencies of all human
bodies. A memoir that is a meditation on disability, metaphor,
gender, sex, and love, A Body, Undone is a compelling account of
living on, as Crosby rebuilds her body and fashions a life through
writing, memory, and desire.
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