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A review by ziyal
Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults): 17 First-Person Stories for Today by Alice Wong
5.0
I received an arc of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
I loved this book and I’m glad I was given the chance to review it.
This book was excellently written and I loved the different perspectives it offered. There was a wide range of diversity in this book from skin color to gender to age and even the disabilities represented. The first story was about a Muslim woman and her journey from fasting for Ramadan to accepting that she couldn’t anymore. Having the first story be one that focused on religion as well as disability was my first high point of the book and one of the first things, I made a note of.
I also found myself learning and growing as I read. For example, before reading the story about guide dogs by Haden Girma I had thought that guide dogs led blind people, but after reading that story, I’ve realized my original thoughts were wrong. Another story that opened my eyes was the story about being deaf in prison. I had never before thought about that problem and this opened my eyes to an issue that I had never really seen talked about. The poem “I Am Too Pretty For Some ‘Ugly Laws’” was not only a powerful poem, but it also contained a law that I had never heard of before. There were other instances throughout the book.
Another strong point of the book was the four parts each with a different theme as well as having quotes to start each one. There were also quite few quotes throughout that I made a note of. Some of the stories also included content warnings at the start and I applaud that decision.
Perhaps one of the strongest parts of the was ending with the story “The Beauty of Spaces Created For and By Disabled People”. It was a well written piece (well all of these stories were), but it was a good piece to end on. And then at the end the juxtaposition of being in a safe place created by disabled people for disabled people and then having to leave and renter a society that was built for abled people by abled people really hit different after hearing all the detail in the first part.
I would recommend this book and would read it again/own it. I am also interested in checking out the non-adapted version of this book.
I loved this book and I’m glad I was given the chance to review it.
This book was excellently written and I loved the different perspectives it offered. There was a wide range of diversity in this book from skin color to gender to age and even the disabilities represented. The first story was about a Muslim woman and her journey from fasting for Ramadan to accepting that she couldn’t anymore. Having the first story be one that focused on religion as well as disability was my first high point of the book and one of the first things, I made a note of.
I also found myself learning and growing as I read. For example, before reading the story about guide dogs by Haden Girma I had thought that guide dogs led blind people, but after reading that story, I’ve realized my original thoughts were wrong. Another story that opened my eyes was the story about being deaf in prison. I had never before thought about that problem and this opened my eyes to an issue that I had never really seen talked about. The poem “I Am Too Pretty For Some ‘Ugly Laws’” was not only a powerful poem, but it also contained a law that I had never heard of before. There were other instances throughout the book.
Another strong point of the book was the four parts each with a different theme as well as having quotes to start each one. There were also quite few quotes throughout that I made a note of. Some of the stories also included content warnings at the start and I applaud that decision.
Perhaps one of the strongest parts of the was ending with the story “The Beauty of Spaces Created For and By Disabled People”. It was a well written piece (well all of these stories were), but it was a good piece to end on. And then at the end the juxtaposition of being in a safe place created by disabled people for disabled people and then having to leave and renter a society that was built for abled people by abled people really hit different after hearing all the detail in the first part.
I would recommend this book and would read it again/own it. I am also interested in checking out the non-adapted version of this book.