American lives

"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....

"Anything Will Be Easy after This recounts the author's efforts, informed by a steady diet of "western" activities including trailing rodeo queens, bidding on cattle, firing guns, and searching for wild horses, to understand the ways in which the western myth is outdated yet persistent"--

"In To Hell with It, Dinty W. Moore asks the question: What would the world be like if eternal damnation was not hanging constantly over our sheepish heads? Why do we persist in believing a myth that merely makes us miserable?"--

""Knocked Down" is a hilarious memoir about a free-spirited, commitment-phobic Brooklyn girl who, after a whirlwind romance, finds herself living in a rickety farmhouse, knocked up, and faced with bed rest due to an incompetent cervix"--