Not a how-to book so much as a what-it’s-like book that describes the author’s experience with polio, hospitals, rehabilitation, and his efforts to live independently. There is a great deal of pain in this book, the pain inherent in the sudden onset of disability. Tough, realistic, and decidedly unsentimental, it is also often tender, wise, and hilarious in its account of disability. Honest to the bone, it is the best written book on how it feels to be disabled.
