I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: if you only read one smart, funny, and amazing book about waking up and realizing you’re paralyzed–or just curious about what humans are capable and want to think about what you’d do if a life-altering thing happened to you without warning–make it Allen Rucker’s The Best Seat in the House, excerpted here, with an interview with the author here. Rucker will be on NPR’s Talk of the Nation tomorrow, February 26, 3 pm EST.