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

Marshall really knows how to demonstrate that truth is stranger than fiction! He's written a wonderful memoir about growing up in Utah as part of a very quirky and unique family. Funny, poignant, and brilliant, he holds nothing back - from learning to masturbate with a body massager from his brother, to becoming aware of his attraction to the same sex, to figuring out how to be a good bottom, to discovering he actually has a physical disability (not the "tight tendons" he had been told he had his entire life). It's all there, people, in unfiltered and sometimes hilarious glory. I would have liked to have known a little more about his siblings as they grew up though. There's one sister who disappears from the book after being mentioned a few times in the beginning. It was a little strange, given that his other siblings are larger than life. I know it's a book about Marshall, but his family was as much of a main character as he was. I appreciated gaining an understanding about what it's like to live with a disability and to struggle with sexuality. I'm looking forward to reading more from him in the future.