Accidents of Nature - Hardcover

Johnson, Harriet McBryde

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805076344 ISBN 13: 9780805076349

Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), 2006

Synopsis

I'm in the middle of a full-blown spaz-attack, and I don't care. I don't care at all. At home I always try to act normal, and spaz-attacks definitely aren't normal. Here, people understand. They know a spaz-attack signals that I'm
excited. They're excited too, so they squeal with me; some even spaz on purpose, if you can call that spazzing . . .
An unforgettable coming-of-age novel about what it's like to live with a physical disability

It's the summer of 1970. Seventeen-year-old Jean has cerebral palsy, but she's always believed she's just the same as everyone else. She's never really known another disabled person before she arrives at Camp Courage. As Jean joins a community unlike any she has ever imagined, she comes to question her old beliefs and look at the world in a new light. The camp session is only ten days long, but that may be all it takes to change a life forever.

Henry Holt published Harriet McBryde Johnson's adult memoir, Too Late to Die Young, in April 2005. Ms. Johnson has been featured in The New York Times Magazine and has been an activist for disability rights for many years.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Seventeen-year-old Jean has cerebral palsy and is wheelchair-bound, but she goes to normal school and has normal friends. But then she arrives at Camp Courage and meets Sara, who welcomes her to 'Crip Camp' and nicknames her Spazzo. Sara is full of rage and revolution against pitying insults and the lack of respect for disabled people and so Jean comes to question her old beliefs. The camp session is only ten days long, but that may be all it takes to change a life forever.

About the Author:

Harriet McBryde Johnson has been a lawyer in Charleston, South Carolina, since 1985. Her solo practice emphasizes benefits and civil rights claims for poor and working people with disabilities. She is the author of Too Late to Die Young.

About this edition

• Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0805076344
• ISBN 13: 9780805076349
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240