This month we’re reading Jan Grue’s memoir I Live a Life Like Yours, which looks at Grue’s life in Norway as a wheelchair user with a undiagnosed muscular disease. The book brings up issues of accessibility, stigma, privilege, and ultimately our relationship to our own humanity. The book was originally published in Norway in 2018 where it won the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature. It has since been translated from the original Norwegian by B. L. Crook, and released in English in the United States in 2021.
We will be discussing I Live a Life Like Yours by Jan Grue on Wednesday, February 23rd. You can find out who our guest will be for that discussion by listening to the podcast on February 2nd. If you’d like even more discussion around the book consider joining The Stacks Pack on Patreon and participating in The Stacks’ monthly virtual book club.
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