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Miracle Boy Grows Up

How the Disability Rights Revolution Saved My Sanity
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Description

Ben Mattlin lives a normal, independent life. Why is that interesting? Because Mattlin was born with spinal muscular atrophy, a congenital weakness from which he was expected to die in childhood. Not only did Mattlin live through childhood, he became one of the first students in a wheelchair to attend Harvard, from which he graduated and became a professional writer. His advantage? Mattlin’s life happened to parallel the growth of the disability rights movement, so that in many ways he did not feel that he was disadvantaged at all, merely different. 
Miracle Boy Grows Up is a witty, unsentimental memoir that you won’t forget, told with engrossing intelligence and a unique perspective on living with a disability in the United States.

Product Details

PublisherSkyhorse
Publish DateAugust 14, 2012
Pages208
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconHardback
EAN/UPC9781616087319
Dimensions228.6 X 152.4 X 25.4 mm | 433.2 g

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