New York: Harper & Row, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A frank and honest memoir, in which Mairs explores her life and her sense of herself by focusing on the places she has lived -from a quonset hut in the South Pacific to Maine, Massachusetts and Arizona - and especially on living within her own body - the "bone house" - and dealing with her sometimes debilitating physical conditions. 273 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0160411.