Wounds That Bind Us

<p><b>The improbable and powerful true story of a single mother with prosthetics for both legs who travels the globe with her young daughter in a Land Rover.</b> <p/><b>A harrowing memoir. . . . Readers may not want to follow in [Shinn's] footsteps but they will never be bored with her as a companion. ?--<i>Kirkus Reviews</i></b> <p/><i>The Wounds That Bind Us</i> is the improbable true story of Kelley Shinn an orphan at birth who loses her legs at the age of sixteen to a rare bacterial pathogen. She becomes an avid off-road racer and as a single mother attempts to drive around the globe in a Land Rover with her three-year-old daughter in tow to bring light to the plight of land mine survivors. With unflinching honesty exceptional lyricism and biting humor Shinn (that's two <i>N</i>s and no shins) takes readers on a wild journey--literal and emotional--filled with striking characters and landscapes heartbreaks and hard-won insights ultimately arriving at a place of profound redemption. </p><p> Told with the energy and intensity of the adventure story it is this terrifically rich and nuanced examination of a life is also a careful meditation on renewal--a remapping of the world. Guided by the narrator's keen introspection and her ability to look resolutely at harrowing sorrows and still find hope joy and meaning <i>The Wounds That Bind Us</i> will resonate deeply long after the last page. </p>