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Hamilton Air Force Base, The United States

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Sandra Gail Lambert writes about the intersections of disability, queerness, and aging. She's the author of the Lambda Literary Award winning My Withered Legs and Other Essays and the memoir A Certain Loneliness as well as two novels—The River's Memory and The Sacrifice Zone: An Environmental Thriller. Her work is widely anthologized and has been published by The New York Times, The Sun, Orion, Uncharted, and Narratively. Lambert lives in Florida close to her beloved rivers and swamps. . ...more

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Sandra Gail Lambert There are so many "here's where it all started" stories, but here's just one of them. I was on a boat in the Okefenokee Swamp and a ranger pointed at …moreThere are so many "here's where it all started" stories, but here's just one of them. I was on a boat in the Okefenokee Swamp and a ranger pointed at a group of five cypress trees, three of them living, two dead. Those were called the five sisters, she said, named after sisters who had lived deep in the swamp because two of the sisters had been barren (isn't that an awful word) and so the dead trees represented how their heritage had died with them. The ranger went on to talk about the importance of drought in cypress tree growth, but I was lost to a sudden anger. It had always seemed overwrought to me when people talked of a red rage that made a film over their vision, but that was precisely what happened. I gripped the aluminum railing on the boat and panted through it until I could be some version of normal again. It wasn't the ranger's fault for passing on a piece of folklore. But the assertion that because those two women hadn't given birth they offered nothing to the future, that the lives they changed and the objects they created had no value just pissed me off. I knew that was a lie. For instance, once I had touched an ancient pottery chard, felt the silkiness of the clay, and been changed. I had to believe that I, who am a dead end on a genealogy chart, had something to offer the future. This novel is an answer to that. If you want to imagine me making a rude hand gesture, please do.(less)

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	The Best of Brevity: Twenty Years of Groundbreaking Flash Nonfiction by Zoë Bossiere (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Dinty W. Moore (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Brenda Miller (Contributor) 4.29 avg rating — 293 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Certain Loneliness: A Memoir 4.43 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The River's Memory 4.34 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Withered Legs and Other Essays (Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction) 4.86 avg rating — 21 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dozen: The Best of Breath and Shadow by Chris Kuell (Editor), Deborah Sheldon (Goodreads Author), Sandra Gail Lambert (Goodreads Author) 4.85 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Saints + Sinners New Fiction from the Festival 2013 by Amie M. Evans (Editor), Paul J. Willis (Editor), N.S. Beranek (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sacrifice Zone it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cossmass Infinities - 2022: The Third Year (Cossmass Infinities Anthologies Book 3) by Paul Campbell, KT Bryski, Scott King 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“So what that the world is beautiful this morning? Enough of this wonder of nature crap. It almost killed me.”
― Sandra Gail Lambert, The River's Memory

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