Review: In This Faulty Machine by Kathy Page
In This Faulty Machine: A Memoir of Loss and Transformation by Kathy Page Toronto: Viking Canada , 2025 This is a memoir that speaks not only to the author's five years of living with Parkinson's Disease, but also to the nature of the human condition and our ever-changing experience of the world in our bodies. I was pleased to review this book for The British Columbia Review . This article was originally published there on October 4, 2025. *** A fall while running downhill on a mountain trail in the spring of 2018 heralded Salt Spring Island writer Kathy Page’s unwanted border crossing from the land of wellness to “a kind of exile or deportation to another place, the kingdom of the sick.” A significant injury to her right hand, followed by fainting spells diagnosed as viral heart inflammation obscured other changes. She experienced cramped handwriting, physical slowness and tremor, and was eventually diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease (PD). She is now five years into this tra...
