Sitting Pretty
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- Publisher HarperOne
- Year published 2020
- ISBN: ISBN 978-0062936790
- Number of pages 256 pages
- WorldCat
- Topic(s) Disability Health
About the Book
Book descriptionBorn in Manhattan, Kansas, in the mid-1980s, Rebekah Taussig was 14 months old when she was diagnosed with a malignant cancer that attacked her spine. Two years of intense treatment left her cancer-free but paralyzed from the waist down. Taussig’s Sitting Pretty is a “memoir-in-essays” spanning personal stories and family histories, offering “a fierce and fabulous revision to entrenched ableist scripts” (Kirkus Reviews) through “spunky, self-aware wit, combined with education that never feels didactic” (speaker and disability rights activist Emily Ladau).
About the Author
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