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. A Certain Loneliness is a meditative
and engaging memoir-in-essays that explores the intersection of
disability, queerness, and female desire with frankness and humor.
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. A Certain Loneliness 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. Â Purchase the audio edition.
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