The Wounds That Bind Us

The improbable and powerful true story of a single mother with prosthetics for both legs who travels...
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Author: Kelley Shinn
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The Wounds That Bind Us by Shinn, Kelley

The Wounds That Bind Us

$32.84

The Wounds That Bind Us

$32.84
Author: Kelley Shinn
Format: Paperback
Language: English

The improbable and powerful true story of a single mother with prosthetics for both legs who travels the globe with her young daughter in a Land Rover.

"A harrowing memoir. . . . Readers may not want to follow in [Shinn's] footsteps, but they will never be bored with her as a companion." ​--Kirkus Reviews

The Wounds That Bind Us is the improbable true story of Kelley Shinn, an orphan at birth who loses her legs at the age of sixteen to a rare bacterial pathogen. She becomes an avid off-road racer and, as a single mother, attempts to drive around the globe in a Land Rover with her three-year-old daughter in tow to bring light to the plight of land mine survivors. With unflinching honesty, exceptional lyricism, and biting humor, Shinn ("that's two Ns and no shins") takes readers on a wild journey--literal and emotional--filled with striking characters and landscapes, heartbreaks, and hard-won insights, ultimately arriving at a place of profound redemption.

Told with the energy and intensity of the adventure story it is, this terrifically rich and nuanced examination of a life is also a careful meditation on renewal--a remapping of the world. Guided by the narrator's keen introspection and her ability to look resolutely at harrowing sorrows and still find hope, joy, and meaning, The Wounds That Bind Us will resonate deeply, long after the last page.



Author: Kelley Shinn
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Published: 06/01/2023
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.06w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9781952271861


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2023

About the Author
Kelley Shinn lives on Ocracoke, North Carolina, a remote island twenty-six miles from the coast. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Fourth Genre, Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, and elsewhere.

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