01/15/2026
Author event happening locally. A powerful story about the experiences between siblings and the resilience of families in overcoming obstacles. Join Brian Trapp and Central Oregon Disability Support Network for this important conversation
Join CODSN, Round About Books, and Brian Trapp, director of disability studies at the University of Oregon for a conversation about his new book, Range of Motion.
A tender, wrenching, and comic novel that follows two twin boys from infancy to the cusp of adulthood.
Twin A and Twin B. That’s what Michael and Sal’s neuroscientist father irreverently calls them. The boys are born moments apart, but baby Sal’s brain scan shows a bleed. He has severe cerebral palsy and intellectual disabilities.
Told through multiple perspectives—Gabe, the boys’ father; Hannah, their mother; and Michael—this debut novel follows the Mitchell family from the boys’ infancy to the cusp of adulthood as they all try to interpret what Sal, who speaks only eight words, is thinking and feeling. The twins’ upbringing in suburban Ohio is familiar and unfamiliar, ordinary and extraordinary, as this middle-class family navigates the challenges and rewards of nurturing a special-needs human with a killer dimple who is utterly and winningly himself: sweet, stubborn, mischievous, impenetrable, and above all, very funny.
Transforming perceptions of disability and interdependence through tender attention to detail, Range of Motion is wrenching, beautiful, and sharply comic.
Brian Trapp is director of disability studies at the University of Oregon, where he also teaches fiction and nonfiction. His work has been published in the Kenyon Review, Southern Review, Longreads, Brevity, and elsewhere. He has been a Steinbeck Fellow, a Borchardt Scholar, and an Elizabeth George grant recipient. He grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, with his twin brother, Danny.
This event will be held at Roundabout Books in partnership with Central Oregon Disability Support Network.
900 NW Mt. Washington Dr. Suite #110, Bend, OR, 97703
Tuesday, January 20th, 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM.
Get your ticket for this event here: https://bit.ly/4jCSzfD
