Polio Boulevard, livre ebook

Finalist for the 2015 Eric Hoffer Award presented by Hopewell Publications
In 1954, Karen Chase was a ten-year-old girl playing Monopoly in the polio ward when the radio blared out the news that Dr. Jonas Salk had developed the polio vaccine. The discovery came too late for her, and Polio Boulevard is Chase's unique chronicle of her childhood while fighting polio. From her lively sickbed she experiences puppy love, applies to the Barbizon School of Modeling, and dreams of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a polio patient who became President of the United States.
Chase, now an accomplished poet who survived her illness, tells a story that flows backward and forward in time from childhood to adulthood. Woven throughout are the themes of how private and public history get braided together, how imagination is shaped when your body can't move but your mind can, and how sexuality blooms in a young girl laid up in bed. Chase's imagination soars in this narrative of illness and recovery, a remarkable blend of provocative reflection, humor, and pluck.
Beds
The Bus Back
Intruders
Earthquake
This Is My Father Talking
Dreamboat
Dates
Hospital Mail
Locomotion
Bowing Down
Water Is Complicated
This Is My Brother Talking
Hospital Snapshots
Inside the Whirlpool
Walking
Mud
Grandma Celia Mail
Take Things in Stride
Bustiers, Braces, and Noise
Try This
Clothes and Hair
The Swap
This Is Patsy Talking
Sayings
Mr. Dark
The Cave