Leg

 Book 22 of my 2025 Reading Challenge

read from February 15 - 19

Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew From It 

by Greg Marshall

published 2023

Summary (via the book jacket)

Greg Marshall's early years were pretty bizarre. Rewind the VHS tapes (this is the nineties) and you'll see a lopsided teenager limping across a high school stage, or in a wheelchair after leg surgeries, pondering why he's crushing on half of the Utah Jazz. Add to this home video footage of a mom clacking away at her newspaper column between chemos, a dad with ALS, and a cast of foulmouthed siblings. Fast-forward the tape and you'll find Marshall happily settled into his life as a gay man, only to discover he's been living in another closet his whole life: He has cerebral palsy, a diagnosis that has been kept from him since birth. (His parents always told him he just had "tight tendons" and left it at that.) Here, in the hot mess of it all, lies Greg Marshall's wellspring of wit and wisdom.

My Opinion

3 stars

I picked this up from the library after seeing it in Bookpage.

Have you ever told a funny or quirky story from your childhood only to be met with a shocked or pitying reaction instead of laughter, making you realize your childhood isn't as typical or sunny as you thought it was?  That's how this whole book felt to me.