Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew From It

Name: Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew From It
Author: Greg Marshall
ISBN: 9781419763601

by Greg Marshall

"Laugh-out-loud funny. Greg Marshall is one helluva storyteller . . . Bright, bold, and beautiful." --ISAAC FITZGERALD, New York Times bestselling author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts "A strange, smutty, hilarious, beautiful, compassionate, provoking, big-hearted, sharp-tongued, original, brilliant memoir. I hated to see it end." ―ELIZABETH McCRACKEN, National Book Award finalist and author of The Hero of This Book "Marshall is one of the most exciting new voices in non-fiction. I could get lost in his brilliant brain forever." ―RYAN O'CONNELL, author of Just by Looking at Him A hilarious and poignant memoir grappling with family, disability, and coming of age in two closets--as a gay man and as a man living with cerebral palsy Greg Marshall's early years were pretty bizarre.…

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"Greg Marshall grew up with a limp, thinking it was “tight tendons,” only to find out – well into adulthood – that it was actually cerebral palsy and that his high school secretary knew before he did. While Leg is a memoir about Marshall’s complicated relationship with his most interesting limb, the leg has a lot of competition for top billing among the troop of brash, loud siblings, a dad with ALS and a mother who makes it her decades-long mission to be a star cancer patient. Leg has everything you want in a memoir: plenty of body humor, a little bit of smut, family drama and tons of personality."

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