Among the core premises of this provocative and deeply humane book is this: disability is in part a product of the intersection of a body and the built world, where the latter often presumes there is only one way a body can be.
Marie is seventeen and a giant of a woman, taller and broader and stronger than those around her.
When her neighbor Bigfoot turns up dead, Janina Duszejko immediately has a theory as to what happened—if only people will listen to her.
A girl—who was once called Zed, and once called Lamentations, and now perhaps has no name—flees the famine and violence of a starving Dutch colony in the Americas and enters the wilderness.
Good infrastructure is thankless. You only notice it when it fails.
Is time out there? Or is it within us?
In 1913, a young Pole arrives at a health resort in the Silesian mountains, a place known to be free of consumption due to the still, damp air.