Alice Wong
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
xviii, 139 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
According to the last census, one in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some are visible, some are hidden-- but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Wong brings together an urgent, galvanizing collection of personal essays by contemporary disabled writers. Inside you will find activists, authors, lawyers, politicians, artists, and everyday people whose daily lives include the vast richness and complexity of...
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 309 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A groundbreaking collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience: Disability Visibility brings together the voices of activists, authors, lawyers, politicians, artists, and everyday people whose daily lives are, in the words of playwright Neil Marcus, "an art . . . an ingenious way to live." According to the last census, one in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some are visible,...