num_pages: 223
description: A young woman spends a month taking the waters at a thermal water-based rehabilitation facility in Budapest. On her return to London she attempts to continue her recovery using an 80 pound inflatable blue bathtub. The tub becomes a metaphor for the intrusion of disability; a trip hazard in the middle of an unsuitable room slowly deflating and in constant danger of falling apart.Sanatorium moves through contrasting spaces - bathtub to thermal pool land to water day to night - interlacing memoir poetry and meditations on the body to create a mesmerising mercurial debut.
language: English
title: Sanatorium
publisher: Penned in the Margins