“Two-Pound Baby Wins Life Fight”Imbalanced traces Sheri Thomas’ remarkable journey from a front-page headline in 1962 to her current role as an advocate fighting to remove the stigmas surrounding physical disabilities and mental health.
Once I began this memoir, I found it so compelling and beautifully written that I found myself wishing I didn't have to take those few necessary breaks on my way to the end of the story. I highly recommend it! You could just read it for the valuable education it provides in mental health and cerebral palsy from a first-person perspective.
Having grown up with a disability myself, I found parts of my soul profoundly touched and healed by reading this book. Sometimes while summoning the strength to get through things, I forgot to stop and recognize the emotional wounds. At the same time, I found myself having deep belly laughs over certain humorous events- my favorite story was the one about the "one room apartment". Thank you, Sheri, for this gift.
Imbalanced is a testament to its author’s courage and resilience in the face of extreme hardship. It is also a riveting read: from the first sentence of its Introduction, in which we learn that the memoir began as therapy after an attempted suicide, we know we are in the company of a writer dealing with life-and-death issues, and dealing with those issues honestly, sometimes humorously, but always with great generosity.