Saturday Review: “The Map That Leads To Salvation” a review by Annie Woodford
Kelley Shinn: The Wounds That Bind Us (2023) in NCLR Online Winter 2024
Our 2024 Winter Online issue is coming very soon!
In this, our first feature review for “North Carolina Disability Literature”, Annie Woodford reviews Kelley Shinn’s memoir. Woodford says the book is “a profoundly lyrical, often humorous, always moving testament to the healing power of storytelling.”
Shinn, now a resident of the OBX, had both legs amputated as a teenager due to bacterial meningitis. “More than anything, this memoir is a testament to Shinn’s love of life and storytelling. She is, first and foremost, a spinner of yarns, a raconteur, a talker, holding the reader in delighted suspense. She will make you laugh, she will make you cry, but most of all she will leave you with an indelible sense of her unique voice as a human and a writer.”
From high school tragedies to traveling the world to current life on the island of Ocracoke, Shinn writes about all of the ups and downs. Woodford senses that “Shinn’s “abiding joy” is part of this book’s warp and woof….”
Read the entire review and buy the book from your local independent bookstore.
