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Crosby's powers of articulation, her ethical convictions, her deep knowledge of politics, literature, and culture, her queer commitments, and her dedication to using language to convey the farthest limits of embodied experience combine to make A Body, Undone a transformational read, one that underscores the basic facts of our interdependence, precarity, and capacity to sustain each other. -Maggie Nelson,Vela Magazine A Body, Undone is a memoir about surviving in the midst of community, reflecting on loss, the interminable nature of grief, and on the meaning of living on. Christina Crosby is a writer whose intellectually expansive reflection is simply awe-inspiring. With prose that can only be described as burning with lucidity and precision, she takes us through the aftermath of the accident and the gradual understanding of its implications for her physical and psychic life. An extraordinary and luminous book. -Judith Butler,author of Precarious Life

Most memoirs about life with a disability 'almost always move toward a satisfying conclusion of lessons learned, Crosby writes. But Crosby knows that there are no satisfying conclusions when one lives 'a life beyond reason'--and that bit of wisdom alone is cause to read this elegant and harrowing book. -The Washington Post Part grueling diary of living with chronic pain and part celebration of survival, this is a complicated understanding of what it means to change your definition of living while living through it. -Elle Crosby's powers of articulation, her ethical convictions, her deep knowledge of politics, literature, and culture, her queer commitments, and her dedication to using language to convey the farthest limits of embodied experience combine to make A Body, Undone a transformational read, one that underscores the basic facts of our interdependence, precarity, and capacity to sustain each other. -Maggie Nelson,Vela Magazine A Body, Undone is a memoir about surviving in the midst of community, reflecting on loss, the interminable nature of grief, and on the meaning of living on. Christina Crosby is a writer whose intellectually expansive reflection is simply awe-inspiring. With prose that can only be described as burning with lucidity and precision, she takes us through the aftermath of the accident and the gradual understanding of its implications for her physical and psychic life. An extraordinary and luminous book. -Judith Butler,author of Precarious Life [A Body, Undone] is fascinating and painful, humiliating and beautiful...There's no bitterness in these pages, no anger at the action that led to her injury. -Mediander.com [I]n her surgically incisive descriptions of how it feels to live in her ravaged body and to redefine herself within extreme new limits, Crosby resists both self-pity and the too-easy narrative of hardship overcome. Instead, she asks readers to recognize how messy, precarious, and queer, in every sense of the word, life in a body can be. -TheNewYorker.com In its intellectual generosity, its frankness, and its dexterous deployment of the resources of scholarship toward the ends of life writing, A Body, Undone recalls other invaluable memoirs of illness and disability by feminist academics like Susan Gubar's Memoir of a Debulked Woman and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's A Dialogue on Love, though unlike those antecedents Crosby engages explicitly with the now-robust field of disability studies. -Feministing.com A potent memoir that rips open a most human heart. -Kirkus Reviews Christina Crosby insists on the challenge of living on after great pain and loss and shows us what it is like to begin this altered life in one's middle years. Tender, fierce, and eloquent, A Body, Undone is a necessary, even life-altering book. -Laura S. Levitt,author of American Jewish Loss after the Holocaust Our sense of ourselves cannot exist outside our bodies. As such, Crosby's act of writing the body is a powerful act of self-preservation. -Inside Higher Ed. Crosby discusses her reality with a candor that must be experienced to be believed. And the reader is left to face the truth that one's embodiment and the world that goes with it) can change utterly and forever, in a heartbeat. -Inside Higher Ed.

A Body, Undoneis a memoir about surviving in the midst of community, reflecting on loss, the interminable nature of grief, and on the meaning of living on. Christina Crosby is a writer whose intellectualy expansive reflection is simply awe-inspiring. With prose that can only be described as burning with lucidity and precision, she takes us through the aftermath of the accident and the gradual understanding of its implications for her physical and psychic life. An extraodinary and luminous book. -Judith Butler, author of Precarious Life

A Body, Undoneis a memoir about surviving in the midst of community, reflecting on loss, the interminable nature of grief, and on the meaning of living on. Christina Crosby is a writer whose intellectual expansive reflection is simply awe-inspiring. With prose that can only be described as burning with lucidity and precision, she takes us through the aftermath of the accident and the gradual understanding of its implications for her physical and psychic life. An extraodinary and luminous book. -Judith Butler, author of Precarious Life

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The late Christina Crosby was a Professor of English and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University. She was the author of The Ends of History: Victorians and the 'Woman Question' and published essays and reviews in Victorian Studies, PMLA, College English, and elsewhere.

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