‘Leg’ recounts gay man’s experience with cerebral palsy
‘Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew From It’By Greg Marshallc.2023, Abrams Press$26/304 pages Hop, hop.
You’ve known how to do that for so long, you probably don’t even remember when you learned it. Or was it instinctive? If you were like most kids, your childhood was filled with jumps and hops, bouncing and skipping and climbing, but as in the new book “Leg” by Greg Marshall many kids have hurdles to leap.
From the moment he was born, Greg Marshall was endowed with two things: a right leg with “tight tendons,” that twisted his foot on that side; and certain oversized intimate body parts that his mother was just too eager to mention.
The latter was an eye-rolling embarrassment. The former was never really a big deal to Marshall. Other than wearing out a lot of sneakers, he walked with a limp, so what?He was never bullied much about it, though his siblings teased him in a way that siblings will.
