Derek Driggs's Reviews > Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It

This left me in tears at the end and several times throughout. It had me laughing even more. I even got chills once or twice. It’s a love story: a romance, yes, but also a story about love for parents and love for family and friends, love for exes, love for life, and finding love for self. That it can be all those things without once becoming a cliché is what makes it good literature, and what makes its author a person worth knowing about. The writing is the one drawback; it’s not the most literarily accomplished memoir out there.
TW:
It can be crude in places; it’s frank to an extreme about the author’s sexual mishaps and explorations growing up. If that’s triggering for you, this won’t be your thing. It also deals explicitly with intense loss and grief.