When Tave wakes up alone in the hospital, she barely remembers the car wreck. Far from home, dazed, and despondent, she struggles to face the challenges of her new paralysisall while worrying about her partner, Les, also severely injured in the accident, now cared for by her homophobic parents who refuse to allow contact. In rehab, Tave relearns life skills and comes to recognize that her future will be completely different than shed imagined. Where will she live? How will she find the help she needs? Can her friends rise to the occasion? Or will she be forced to move back in with her mother, putting up with endless talk of faith healers? Her one beacon of hope is Beth, her physical therapist. But Beths relationship problems with her own girlfriend push her toward overinvolvementand risk damaging both her career and Taves recovery. A story of courage, resilience, and love, Unswerving challenges readers preconceived notions of disability, of limitations, and of the inevitability of fate.

Binding: Paperback;234 pages; Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press; Classification: FA; Weight: 428 g; Dimensions: 137 x 216 x 18

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