Off Kilter by Linda C Wisniewski
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- Pub. Date: April 2008
- 164pp
- Sales Rank: 705,420
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- Pub. Date: April 2008
- Publisher: Pearlsong Press
- Format: Paperback, 164pp
- Sales Rank: 705,420
- ISBN-13: 9781597190121
- ISBN: 1597190128
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Even before she was diagnosed with scoliosis at thirteen, Linda Wisniewski felt off kilter. Born to a cruel father and a long-suffering mother in the insulated Polish Catholic community of upstate New York, she learned martyrdom as a way of life. Off Kilter shows her learning to stretch her Self as well as her spine as she comes to terms with her mentally deteriorating, widowed mother and her culture. Only by accepting her physical deformity, her emotionally unavailable mother, and her Polish American heritage does she finally find balance and a life that fits. Susan Wittig Albert calls Off Kilter a "splendid first memoir about the difficult business of finding balance in our lives. Funny, honest, deeply moving, Off Kilter reminds us just how hard it is to adjust to the physical pain, the emotional loss, and even the surprising beauty of being fully who we are."
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Extraordinary, Memorableby JosephAGillan
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June 06, 2009: Off Kilter is a powerful and obviously heartfelt and loving memoir. What Ms. Wisniewski writes in particular in chapter 20 about the funeral for her father and, in chapter 22, about the death of her mother, were, for me, the most beautiful and strongest passages in the entire book -- an extraordinary and memorable book that is marked, above all, by the purity and elegance of its writing style.
-- Joseph A. Gillanauthor, "Just Before the Dawn"
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