num_pages: 210
description: After contracting polio as a child Sandra Gail Lambert progressed from braces and crutches to a manual wheelchair to a power wheelchairbut loneliness has remained a constant from the wild claustrophobia of a child in body casts to just yesterday trapped at home gasping from pain. A Certain Loneliness is a meditative and engaging memoir-in-essays that explores the intersection of disability queerness and female desire with frankness and humor.Lambert presents the adventures of flourishing within a world of uncertain kayaking alone through swamps with alligators; negotiating planes trains and ski lifts; scoring free drugs from dangerous men; getting trapped in a too-deep snow drift without crutches. A Certain Loneliness is literature of the body palpable and present in which Lamberts lifelong struggle with isolation and independencecomplete with tiresome frustrations slapstick moments and grand triumphsare wound up in the long history of humanitys relationship to the natural world. 
language: English
title: A Certain Loneliness: A Memoir
publisher: University of Nebraska Press