A Body, Undone: Living on After Great Pain Crosby ChristinaPaperback
A Body, Undone: Living on After Great Pain Crosby ChristinaPaperback A woman's fight to reclaim her body after a paralysis-inducing cycling accidentIn the early evening on October 1, 2003, Christina…
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A Body, Undone: Living on After Great Pain Crosby ChristinaPaperback
A woman's fight to reclaim her body after a paralysis-inducing cycling accidentIn the early evening on October 1, 2003, Christina Crosby was three miles into a seventeen mile bicycle ride, intent on reaching her goal of 1,000 miles for the riding season. As she crested a hill, she caught a branch in the spokes of her bicycle, which instantly pitched her to the pavement. She was a respected senior professor of English who had celebrated her fiftieth birthday a month before.
In that instant, she was paralyzed.In A Body, Undone, Crosby puts into words a broken body that seems beyond the reach of language and understanding. Her chin took the full force of the blow, and her head snapped back. She writes about a body shot through with neurological pain, disoriented in time and space, incapacitated by paralysis and deadened sensation.
To address this foreign body,