10/15/2026
“An honest and insightful memoir about what happens when life changes—and how you can keep living it.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
In Stride, writer and mother Avra Wing shares an unflinchingly honest account of living with sudden disability in a world designed for the able-bodied.
One spring afternoon in 1990, Wing, while holding her young son, is crushed by an out-of-control car careening onto the sidewalk near her Brooklyn home. Her son is physically unharmed. She loses her right leg.
With poetic intimacy, Wing writes about her experience navigating the physical and emotional obstacles to recovery, her friends’ and family’s reactions to her injury, and the hard-won wisdom gained from learning that if you reach out your hand, someone will take it.
Chronicling personal loss but also triumph, Stride tells a powerful story of recovery and resilience, illuminating how a radically altered life path can lead from tragedy and loss to community, connection, and joy.
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