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  1. 1Sitting Pretty (2020)Sitting Pretty (2020) 10.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2020Taussig sometimes drives by a new destination before an appointment to see how she’ll get in. That extra trip changes the scale of the accessibility chapter: even a routine outing can require advance work somebody else never has to think about. The book pays the same kind of attention to dating,…0
  2. 2Haben (2019)Haben (2019)Published Jan 1, 2019At college, Girma asks the cafeteria to email its menu so she can read it in Braille and choose what to eat. The staff agree, but the emails arrive sporadically. A simple request turns into a story about who gets to decide what counts as good service and how often a student has to ask for the same…0
  3. 3I Live a Life Like Yours (2021)I Live a Life Like Yours (2021)Published Jan 1, 2021One winter day, Grue’s classmates form a chain behind his wheelchair on the ice. Years later, his young son climbs onto his lap. Put those scenes alongside each other and the different kinds of company they offer become clearer. B.L. Crook translated the memoir from Norwegian.0
  4. 4Golem Girl (2020)Golem Girl (2020)Published Jan 1, 2020Lehrer remembers looking at fellow members of an arts collective in Chicago and seeing faces she wanted to paint with the care she admired in Renaissance portraits. Getting the work seen was another matter when galleries were up steep warehouse stairs. Those two details help explain why her…0
  5. 5Year of the Tiger (2022)Year of the Tiger (2022) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2022When Wong can no longer eat some of her favorite foods, she writes about how much she misses them. She also describes making room for flavors she loves, and Felicia Liang illustrates some of her favorites. The food pages belong beside the activism in this collage memoir because they show what care…0
  6. 6Easy Beauty (2022)Easy Beauty (2022) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2022In Rome’s Galleria Borghese, a stranger’s attention becomes part of what Jones experiences in front of a Bernini sculpture. She keeps track of the art, of being looked at, and of how difficult it is to give either her full attention. The scene is a good way into a memoir that applies the same…0
  7. 7The Pretty One (2019)The Pretty One (2019)Published Jan 1, 2019Brown and her identical twin Leah grow up hearing a label that singles one sister out as pretty. Brown gives that label a history, then makes room for her own pleasure in clothes, lipstick, pop culture, and the people who know her well. The essays are especially good on how sisters can be close and…0
  8. 8The Country of the Blind (2023)The Country of the Blind (2023) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2023Leland carries a folded white cane but rarely takes it out. After moving to Massachusetts, he begins using it in public and finds that people respond to him differently even though his sight has changed gradually. That moment opens up his question about how you come to think of yourself as blind…0
  9. 9Deaf Utopia (2022)Deaf Utopia (2022)Published Jan 1, 2022DiMarco opens with a doctor who tries to soften the news that the newborn twins are Deaf. Their mother wants a straight answer and greets it with two thumbs up. The scene establishes the family history and the pride in American Sign Language that run through the memoir, written with Robert Siebert.0
  10. 10Being Heumann (2020)Being Heumann (2020) 10.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2020Heumann passes the written and oral exams for a New York City teaching license, then the school system turns her down because she uses a wheelchair. She takes the decision to court and gets her license after the case settles. The memoir, written with Kristen Joiner, makes the personal stakes of a…0