{"product_id":"muscle-memory-9781957392547","title":"Muscle Memory","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Muscle Memory devastated me.” —Kiese Laymon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a searing pain starts in Lilly Dancyger’s hip at twenty-six years old, she goes to see a doctor, expecting an explanation and a treatment plan. Instead, what follows is an eleven-year search for a diagnosis—and the recalibration of her identity from a fit and healthy bartender and dancer to a person who is in pain. Remembering her chaotic childhood, during which ballet classes were a rare stabilizing force, Dancyger becomes convinced that if she can just get well enough to dance, ballet will help her conquer chronic pain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuscle Memory is a quietly seething braided memoir in three acts: part personal account of a lifelong relationship with ballet; part pain narrative; part researched examination of classical ballets. Dancyger exposes the systematic dismissal of women’s suffering, tests the linkages between chronic pain and trauma, and looks for answers in The Firebird—a folktale-turned-ballet about the bargains we make to free ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lilly Dancyger","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68313194627323,"sku":"9781957392547","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781957392547.jpg?v=1794028523","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/muscle-memory-9781957392547","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}