Sandra Gail Lambert
My Withered Legsand Other Essays
A seventy-year history of disability is the framework for Sandra Gail Lambert’s collection of personal essays.
Here are tales of lesbian love, aging, and the body’s changing relationship to itself and the world. Along with the uncertainties, triumphs, and often slapstick humor of becoming a writer later in life, these essays are grounded in queer, crip, and climate politics.
A Certain Loneliness
Sandra Gail Lambert explores the intersections of disability, queerness, and desire in this frank and funny memoir of her lifelong struggle with isolation and independence after contracting polio as a child.
“I think A Certain Loneliness breaks very new ground and does so in an elegant but also visceral and physical and utterly illuminating way.” —Jo Ann Beard
The Sacrifice ZoneAn Environmental Thriller
A biological weapon accident destroys Vic Riga’s hometown and the United States is immediately put on lockdown by the rest of the world. Vic Riga, disabled and queer, escaped the claustrophobia and racism of the Florida fishing village where generations of her family had fished, smuggled, run drugs, and lived strangely long lives.
In the midst of a country thrown into chaos, Vic works to peel back layers and years of lies to find out the truth of the government’s involvement in the environmental catastrophe, the truth about her family, and the truth about her own body
The River's Memory
The women in this novel live along the banks of a river where water billows from caverns of silent lakes. None of them are famous. None have children. Instead, their stories exist in a mosaic of time and shadowed history, and the things of the river—clay and water, trees and bone—carry their memories forward.
“The River’s Memory is at once lyrical and brutal, uplifting and devastating. Sandra Gail Lambert has an ear for the poetry of voices, the music of land, and the roar of history. – Tayari Jones