A simple, direct, and sometimes self-deprecating style of writing tenderly draws readers into Kehret's experiences and the effects of the disease firsthand. Kehret's were the only parents who visited her each Sunday, and soon ``adopted'' her fellow polio victims. Bad haircuts and lost ball games would never bother me again.'' There are touching black-and-white photographs of her roommates, who had already been there for ten years. I had lived with excruciating pain and with loneliness and uncertainty about the future. ``I had a strange feeling that I was reading about a different lifetime. After her fever broke and she lay paralyzed in the hospital, her parents delivered a big brown packet of letters from her classmates.
Kehret (Earthquake Terror, 1996, etc.) describes the disease, the diagnosis, the severe symptoms, treatments, physical therapy, slow recovery, and return home with walking sticks-and how she was forever changed. From a writer known for her fiction, a moving memoir about a 12-year-old who got polio in 1949 in Austin, Minnesota.
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