I had never watched Dancing With the Stars but I was over a friend’s house one night and it was on and I was mesmerized. Amy Purdy was so good! Graceful and incredibly talented and then I realized she had no legs and I was blown away.
In this poignant and uplifting memoir, On My Own Two Feet, Amy reveals the story of how at 19 she contracted bacterial meningitis and was given less than a two percent chance of survival, but through hard work and determination she defied the doctors and went on to become the top adaptive snowboarder in the world (a three-time World Cup Para-Snowboard Gold Medalist, and the 2014 Paralympic Bronze Medalist!).
Losing her legs also led her to find a spiritual path that has given her internal strength to keep defying the odds. Her memoir urges readers to live life to the fullest, because we are all a lot more capable than we could ever imagine.