Anna Jean Mallinson's Terra Infirma: A Life Unbalanced (Windshift Press $17.95) provides a personal account of the author's experience with a toxic reaction to the antibiotic Gentamicin, which destroyed the hair follicles in her inner ear, eliminating her body's equilibrium. Mallinson lives in West Vancouver and contributes essays to the Vocabula Review.

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[BCBW 2008]