Work with What You Got: A Memoir av Zion Clark, James S. Hirsch

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<p><b>Elite wheelchair racer and wrestler Zion Clark joins with <i>New York Times</i> best-selling author James S. Hirsch for a stunning memoir ¿ recounting childhood adversity, awe-inspiring perseverance and self-invention.</b><br>When a baby named Zion was born in 1997 to an imprisoned, drug-addicted mother, his future seemed bleak. Born without legs due to a rare condition called caudal regression syndrome, Zion was abandoned and shunted to a foster-care system ill-equipped to care for him. In this stirring memoir, readers will follow as he is bounced from home to home, subjected to abuse, neglect and inconceivable hardship. Somehow, Zion finds supportive angels along the way: his first two foster families, who offer a haven; the wrestling coach who senses his ¿warrior spirit¿ and nurtures it; the woman of fierce faith who adopts a seventeen-year-old and cheers his every match. From play-by-play narration of how Zion adapts wrestling moves to defeat able-bodied opponents, wielding p