I Live a Life Like Yours

'Compelling, unconventional. Genius' Michael J. Fox,

New York Times

'Up-ends received wisdom about disability, testifies to an uncrushable spirit and an ordinary, extraordinary family... Revolutionary' David Mitchell, author of

Cloud Atlas

'A profound, contemplative work'

New Statesman

'A powerful examination... a wonderful memoir'

Independent

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Jan Grue was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy at the age of three, along with the assumption that his life would be narrow and limited. In

I Live a Life Like Yours, he confronts this spectacular failure to anticipate the life that he lives now - as a husband, a father, a professor - and sets out to forge a radical new way to tell his story.

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FURTHER PRAISE FOR

I LIVE A LIFE LIKE YOURS

'

Stunning… restrained, dazzlingly intelligent'

Observer

'A quietly

brilliant book that warms slowly in the hands. Artful'

New York Times

'This is a voice that has found

inventive ways to imagine and frame disability and difference' Raymond Antrobus, author of

All the Names Given

'Sensitive and

beautiful… Jan tells the story of how he came to his own understanding with exactness and poetry' Jarred McGinnis, author of

The Coward

'Quietly but insistently

radical, a book which demands space and leaves change behind' Jessie Greengrass, author of

Sight and

The High House

'

A gift to read' Sunaura Taylor, author of

Beasts of Burden

'All of us, whether we consider ourselves disabled or nondisabled, will understand more full what it means to be human if we accompany Jan Grue in his

rich travels' Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, author of

Extraordinary Bodies

'An

elegant meditation… a tart and spare palate cleanser'

Vulture