![]() ![]() They insist that disability is an opportunity for creativity and resistance. Their work is daring, edgy, funny, and dark-it rejects tropes that define disabled people as pathetic, frightening, or worthless. ![]() Enduring countless medical interventions, Riva tries her best to be a good girl and a good patient in the quest to be cured.Įverything changes when, as an adult, Riva is invited to join a group of artists, writers, and performers who are building Disability Culture. That she will never have a job, a romantic relationship, or an independent life. Her parents and doctors are determined to ‘fix’ her, sending the message over and over again that she is broken. At the time, most such children are not expected to survive. ![]() In 1958, amongst the children born with spina bifida is Riva Lehrer. ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD*** The vividly told, gloriously illustrated memoir of an artist born with disabilities who searches for freedom and connection in a society afraid of strange bodies. ‘A hymn to life, love, family, and spirit’ DAVID MITCHELL, author of Cloud Atlas ![]()
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