Kevin Michael Connolly
Reading & Signing
Thurs, October 29 7:00 pm
DOUBLE TAKE: A MEMOIR
Kevin Michael Connolly is a twenty-three-year-old who has seen the
world in a way most of us never will. Whether swarmed by Japanese
tourists at Epcot Center as a child or holding court at the X Games on
his mono-ski as a teenager, Kevin has been an object of curiosity since
the day he was born without legs. Growing up in rural Montana, he was
raised him like any other kid (except, that is, for his father’s
MacGyver-like contraptions such as the “butt boot”). As a college
student, Kevin traveled to seventeen countries on his skateboard and,
in an attempt to capture the stares of others, he took more than 30,000
photographs of people staring at him. In this dazzling memoir, Connolly
casts the lens inward to explore how we view ourselves and what it is
to truly see another person. We also get to know his quirky and
unflappable parents and his spunky girlfriend. From the home of his
family in Helena, Montana to the streets of Tokyo and Kuala Lumpur,
Connolly’s remarkable journey will change the way you look at others,
and the way you see yourself.
