Places I’ve Taken My Body
Molly McCully Brown

In seventeen intimate essays, Molly McCully Brown explores living within and beyond the limits of a body—in her case one shaped since birth by cerebral palsy. These essays comprise a vivid travelogue set throughout the United States and Europe, from the rural American South of her childhood to the medieval streets of Bologna, Italy.
Moving between these locales and others, Brown constellates the subjects that define her, inside and out.

“[A] work of great humanity.”
—Garrard Conley, author of Boy Erased

“I want to press this book into the hands of everyone I know.”
—Jamie Quatro, author of Fire Sermon

Molly McCully Brown is the author of The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded and, with Susannah Nevison, In the Field Between Us. She lives in Gambier, Ohio, and teaches at Kenyon College 

Hardcover / $24.95 (Can $31.95) / ISBN 978-0-89255-513-0 / 224 pages / Essays