02679cam a2200373 4500 607724662 TxAuBib 20220821120000.0 ||||||s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781696606585 1696606586 48b8a105-d23f-4086-8490-156ad070c899 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 6163457 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Grue, Jan. I Live a Life Like Yours [Bridges Audiobook] : A Memoir. HighBridge, 2021. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 140MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 140MB. award-winning. Autobiography. Muscular. atrophy. spinal. Books. Jan Grue was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy at the age of three. Shifting between specific periods of his life-his youth with his parents and sister in Norway; his years of study in Berkeley, St. Petersburg, and Amsterdam; and his current life as a professor, husband, and father-he intersperses these histories with elegant, astonishingly wise reflections on the world, social structures, disability, loss, relationships, and the body: in short, on what it means to be human. Along the way, Grue moves effortlessly between his own story and those of others, incorporating reflections on philosophy, film, art, and the work of writers from Joan Didion to Michael Foucault. I Live a Life Like Yours is a love story. It is rich with loss, sorrow, and joy, and with the details of one life: a girlfriend pushing Grue through the airport and forgetting him next to the baggage claim; schoolmates forming a chain behind his wheelchair on the ice one winter day; his parents writing desperate letters in search of proper treatment for their son; his own young son climbing into his lap as he sits in his wheelchair, only to leap down and run away too quickly to catch. It is a story about accepting one's own body and limitations, and learning to love life as it is while remaining open to hope and discovery. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-10-19 20:00:02. Halstead, Graham. Crook, B. L. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=48b8a105-d23f-4086-8490-156ad070c899&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=48b8a105-d23f-4086-8490-156ad070c899&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)