By sharing my story, I hope to increase awareness of the marginalization and prejudice disabled people often face in attitudes and the physical environment. Ultimately, I hope my book illustrates the need for change to facilitate the full participation of people with disabilities in society."
Susan Mockler, The Miramichi Reader
Second Story Press, 2022
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Fractured: A Memoir
Second Story Press, 2022 Read an excerpt of Fractured on Open Book or listen on Send My Love to Anyone “Somehow it was easier to be inside the injury. Not to see what was visible on the outside. I knew I was still here.” A collision with a moose on a dark highway left Susan Mockler with an incomplete spinal injury, suddenly compromising her ability to walk and to care for herself. She spent months in a rehabilitation facility learning how to adjust to her new reality, and though her body partially recovered, every aspect of her life changed. Fractured is a compelling illumination of the challenges of acquired disability and the ways in which people with disabilities are sidelined and infantilised. Mockler, a psychotherapist, speaks with frank honesty about her family and friends’ reactions to her injury, and the hard-won lessons that she and those around her learned from her experience. |
Advanced praise for Fractured:
“Susan Mockler is a force—in writing, in life, in the world. Fractured is an unflinching look at the realities, both systemic and individual, of disability, and a testament both to the power of human will and to our need, as a society, to do better. Grace, determination, and power illuminate every page of this beautiful book. These words will stay with you forever.” —Amanda Leduc, author of Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space, and The Centaur’s Wife
“Susan Mockler’s memoir is equal parts devastating and empowering. As she details her experience of recovery after a serious car accident, she fulfills a key aim of disability narratives [by] suggesting different paths forward. ‘Recovery,’ as she writes, is not ‘a return to self,’ but a reformation, a recombination of the shattered pieces to create an exhilarating, new whole. That’s precisely what she’s achieved here.” —Adam Pottle, author of Voice: On Writing with Deafness
“Susan Mockler is a force—in writing, in life, in the world. Fractured is an unflinching look at the realities, both systemic and individual, of disability, and a testament both to the power of human will and to our need, as a society, to do better. Grace, determination, and power illuminate every page of this beautiful book. These words will stay with you forever.” —Amanda Leduc, author of Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space, and The Centaur’s Wife
“Susan Mockler’s memoir is equal parts devastating and empowering. As she details her experience of recovery after a serious car accident, she fulfills a key aim of disability narratives [by] suggesting different paths forward. ‘Recovery,’ as she writes, is not ‘a return to self,’ but a reformation, a recombination of the shattered pieces to create an exhilarating, new whole. That’s precisely what she’s achieved here.” —Adam Pottle, author of Voice: On Writing with Deafness