Such a Pretty Girl: A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride

by Nadina LaSpina

Book Overview

A memoir by a disability rights activist

Such a Pretty Girl is Nadina LaSpina's story-from her early years in her native Sicily, where still a baby she contracts polio, a fact that makes her the object of well-meaning pity and the target of messages of hopelessness; to her adolescence and youth in America, spent almost entirely in hospitals, where she is tortured in the quest for a cure and made to feel that her body no longer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 161332099X
• ISBN13: 9781613320990
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: New Village Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.5"