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Kenny Fries embarks on a journey of profound self-discovery as a disabled foreigner in Japan, a society historically hostile to difference. As he visits gardens, experiences Noh and butoh, and meets artists and scholars, he also discovers disabled gods, one-eyed samurai, blind chanting priests, and A-bomb survivors. When he is diagnosed as HIV positive, all his assumptions about Japan, the body, and mortality are shaken, and he must find a way to...
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In this bitingly funny and often surprising memoir, award-winning author and groundbreaking comedian Bob Smith offers a meditation on the vitality of the natural world-and an intimate portrait of his own darkly humorous and profoundly authentic response to a life-changing illness. In Treehab-named after a retreat cabin in rural Ontario-Smith muses how he has "always sought the path less traveled." He rebuffs his diagnosis of ALS as only an unflappable...
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