“Body of Diminishing Motion”
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“Body of Diminishing Motion”
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The final section, “Castoffs,” forges links between the parents’ “Holocaust truths” and the truth of the here and now -- the retreat “to a country without words.”
Ultimately, BODY OF DIMINSIHING MOTION is a sympathetic, if unapologetic evocation of building a life despite living with a chronic illness. “Sidney’s portrait of life with MS is fresh and sensitive, and very much needed,” writes Bruce R. Ransom, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the department of neurology at the University of Washington. “Wielding her art in a brave and unflinching way, she provides a wonderfully nuanced and emotionally true account of living with an unpredictable but relentless enemy bent on sabotaging communications within her brain.... Profound in its candor and eloquence, BODY OF DIMINSIHING MOTION is a brave, enduring work that will speak to anyone who had been touched by illness and refused to succumb to its power.
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