This new book by Calligarich covers a protagonist who “now gravely ill, he is most tormented by his own approaching demise. As with the changed city, he hardly recognizes his own face when he stares into the rusted mirrors of diners and dive bars. Who will remember him? What trace will he leave behind here? “It isn’t my body they’ll bury — what is a body? — but everything I once was,” he laments, “my memories, the people who live inside me and who I can visit by closing my eyes.”
And there’s another book outthere of interest – especially as it’s about disability!
As per this review in the Guardian: “In job interviews, I was saying that I wanted to see more books with disabled characters in them that were not traumatic, boring or educational, but fun and full of life. A lot of the reactions were, ‘Waterstones don’t like books like that’,” she says.
Worryingly – “The author was repeatedly told that no one wanted to read fun books with disabled heroes.” So check this out.