num_pages: 204
description: Rate your pain on a scale of one to ten. What about on a scale of spicy to citrus? Is it more like a lava lamp or a mosaic? Pain though a universal element of human experience is dimly understood and sometimes barely managed. Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays from a Nervous System is a collection of literary and experimental essays about living with chronic pain. Sonya Huber moves away from a linear narrative to step through the doorway into pain itself into that strange unbounded reality. Although the essays are personal in nature this collection is not a record of the authors specific condition but an exploration that transcends pains airless and constraining world and focuses on its edges from wild and widely ranging angles. Huber addresses the nature and experience of invisible disability including the challenges of gender bias in our health care system the search for effective treatment options and the difficulty of articulating chronic pain. She makes pain a lens of inquiry and lyricism finds its humor and complexity describes its irascible character and explores its temperature taste and even its beauty. 
language: English
title: Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System
publisher: University of Nebraska Press