Publisher's Synopsis
Joan Weimer had spent three years researching the life of nineteenth-century novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson for a critical biography when a devastating back injury left her virtually immobile. Pain reshaped her research as she discovered more about Woolson's writing, family, and grief. The imaginative relationship she developed with Woolson-chronicled in this heart-felt book- helped Weimer to escape her physical disability as she wrestled with the question of how to redefine herself.
In this elegant, humorous, and brutally frank memoir, Weimer's discoveries-documentative and imaginative, historical and personal-reveal much about what motivates research, and what motivates healing.
In this elegant, humorous, and brutally frank memoir, Weimer's discoveries-documentative and imaginative, historical and personal-reveal much about what motivates research, and what motivates healing.
