A thoughtful, historically-grounded, and often humorous memoir, interweaving personal experience with an exploration of the roots of ethnic stereotypes and antisemitism.
Following a life-changing accident that left him paralyzed at age 51, Arthur Ullian began to realize that not only did life in a wheelchair make him feel "different," but he had always felt like an outsider to some degree, having grown up Jewish in the elite WASP world of prep schools, cotillion classes, sailing yachts, and restricted clubs.
