Phantom Limb Book

"Phantom Limb is a memoir for those who have experienced the final difficult years of a parent's life. Janet Sternburg's mother lost her leg yet continued to feel the limb as though it were still present. Setting out to learn more about this mysterious condition, Sternburg encounters new ideas about the relationship of mind to body. She also finds a sense of freedom and depth of caring that continue after her parents have died." Sternburg suggests that we all have phantom limbs - someone no longer with us who remains a part of us. She writes about this paradox with such warmth and transformative imagination that the loss itself becomes luminous. At once a deeply moving chronicle of discovering love through adversity, an inquiry into what contemporary neurology has to teach us, and a meditation on the inexplicable suffering life sometimes brings, Phantom Limb links us all in the struggle to make peace with physical and emotional ghosts of the past.