IF YOU REALLY LOVE ME, THROW ME OFF THE MOUNTAIN
Erin Clark
MEMOIR
SEPTEMBER 2020
ISBN paperback: 78-87-92633-55-2
ISBN Ebook 78-87-92633-56-9
Paperback | 9×6 | B&W | 268 pp
LIST PRICE: $19
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If You Really Love Me, Throw Me Off the Mountain is a memoir of love and adventure. It tells of one very whole woman’s experience of being disabled in a world that cannot imagine her being anything other than broken. In 2014, aerial dancer Erin Clark moves from Canada to command the stages of New York City. When her wheelchair breaks, sepsis nearly kills her, and her marriage ends, she is flung out of her life and into a dramatic series of events, which culminates with her moving to Spain to join a paragliding school and master one of the world’s most dangerous sports. When she falls in love in the Andalusian mountains, she learns that a flying wheelchair might not be the biggest risk of all.
Contents
Prologue: Please, let me on the plane 19
Part One: How to be a sex icon 13
Chapter 1: Better things to do 15
Chapter 2: A wheelchair can’t be a woman 21
Chapter 3: True adventures 33
Chapter 4: Father figure 40
Chapter 5: A godsend 51
Chapter 6: When you get what you want 56
Chapter 7: To marry a forest 65
Chapter 8: An inspiration 75
Chapter 9: The lovers 82
Chapter 10: Glitter helps 88
Chapter 11: The Death You Don’t Die 97
Part Two: Impossible things 109
Chapter 12: The unknown factor 111
Chapter 13: “Take” me 125
Chapter 14: Missing pieces 137
Chapter 15: A good match 145
Chapter 16: Please, no difficult wind 151
Part Three All fall down 163
Chapter 17: Love all the way 165
Chapter 18 Mad or wise? 174
Chapter 19: A good girl 181
Chapter 20: Devotion 190
Chapter 21: I’ll be more like you 195
Chapter 22: An homage to something real 209
Chapter 23: Before death, French fries 218
Chapter 24: Crashing is part of the sport 227
Chapter 25: It shows somehow in the eyes 235
Chapter 26: Dispatches from the desert, a second Heart 245
Learn more
Read more about Erin and her adventures at her won website: How to be a sex icon.