{"product_id":"sex-with-a-brain-injury-book-annie-liontas-9781668015544","title":"Sex with a Brain Injury","description":"\u003ci\u003e\"This is an infuriatingly gorgeous, important book and Liontas is a singular writer.”\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eCarmen Maria Machado, author of\u003ci\u003e Her Body and Other Parties\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Sex With a Brain Injury is a rhythmic genre-bender: Maggie Nelson meets concussion; Olivia Laing of the walking wounded. Annie Liontas writes like an alchemist, braiding humor, humanity, and history into the personal narrative of her injuries and healing. I loved this book.”\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eMelissa Broder, author of \u003ci\u003eDeath Valley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor readers of Meghan O’Rourke’s \u003ci\u003eThe Invisible Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e, Esm\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eé\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e Weijun Wang’s \u003ci\u003eThe Collected Schizophrenias\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eMelissa Febos’s\u003ci\u003e Girlhood\u003c\/i\u003e, a powerful and deeply personal memoir in essays that sheds light on the silent epidemic of head trauma.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Annie Liontas suffered multiple concussions in her thirties. In \u003ci\u003eSex with a Brain Injury\u003c\/i\u003e, she writes about what it means to be one of the “walking wounded,” facing her fear, her rage, her physical suffering, and the effects of head trauma on her marriage and other relationships. Forced to reckon with her own queer mother’s battle with addiction, Liontas finds echoes in their pain. Liontas weaves history, philosophy, and personal accounts to interrogate and expand representations of mental health, ability, and disability—particularly in relation to women and the LGBT community. She uncovers the surprising legacy of brain injury, examining its role in culture, the criminal justice system, and through historical figures like Henry VIII and Harriet Tubman. Encountering Liontas’s sharp, affecting prose, the reader can imagine this kind of pain, and having to claw one’s way back to a new normal. The hidden gift of injury, Liontas writes, is the ability to connect with others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For the millions of people who have suffered from concussions and for those who have endeavored to support loved ones through the painful and often baffling experience of head trauma, this astonishing and compassionate narrative offers insight and hope in equal measure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49509520277777,"sku":"GOR013623318","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49991003963665,"sku":"CIN1668015544VG","price":4.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50332722004241,"sku":"CIN1668015544G","price":4.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51045246992657,"sku":"NIN9781668015544","price":26.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1668015544.jpg?v=1751310839","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/sex-with-a-brain-injury-book-annie-liontas-9781668015544","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}