Description
About the Author
Kenny Fries is the author of Body, Remember: A Memoir and The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin's Theory. He is the editor of Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out. He teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Goddard College and is the recipient of a prestigious Creative Capital grant.
Reviews
"Kenny Fries writes out of the pure hot emergency of a mortal being trying to keep himself alive. So much is at stake here-health, affection, culture, trauma, language-but its greatest surprise is what thrives in the midst of suffering. A beautiful book."-Paul Lisicky, author of The Narrow Door
"In this subtle page turner, Fries helps reinvent the travel-as-pilgrimage narrative. He neither exoticizes nor shies away from the potential pitfalls of a Western mind traveling abroad; instead he demonstrates how, through an all-too-rare open heart and a true poet's eye, bridges can be built and understanding deepened, one sincere action at a time."-Marie Mutsuki Mockett, author of Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye
"Deeply moving and exquisitely written about many things-cultural and physical difference, sexuality, love, loss, mortality, and the ephemeral nature of beauty and art-and a love letter to Japan."- Mira Bartok, author of The Memory Palace
"Not your typical AIDS memoir. . . . It's also a book about living with a life-long disability, living in a unique and vastly different culture than one's own. . . . Fries offers compelling insight into Japanese culture. Perhaps from a lifetime spent on the outside looking in, he shines in his understanding of and his perspective on the human condition." - John Francis Leonard, A&U
"An achingly beautiful and intricately-woven personal narrative.... Fries' prose shines with a honed and brightly polished clarity-each phrase hangs heavy with meaning, reduced only to what is necessary, a world in of itself. . . . to read it is to experience what true literary achievement really means."-Julia Bouwsma, Connotation Press
"Absorbing, moving and intensely human. . . . In the unsettled and often angry world of disability politics, Kenny Fries' memoir enters centre stage, projecting an oasis of calm and insightful enquiry."-Wordgathering
Book Information
ISBN 9780299314200
Author Kenny Fries
Format Hardback
Page Count 216
Imprint University of Wisconsin Press
Publisher University of Wisconsin Press
Weight(grams) 380g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 12mm