A review by shai631
Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law by Haben Girma

5.0

As the title states, this is the story of a deaf-blind Black woman, all of the -isms she encounters, and how she overcame them. I am rarely able to say that a book is inspiring but it is a fitting description for this book. She has all of these "disabilities" (which, BTW, she dislikes that term), and does more with her life than many of us could even begin to imagine doing with ours.

She travels all around the globe. She doesn't fear people and embraces new experiences. Everyone has fears but she charges forward through life determined not to let anything hold her back. I wish I had the cojones she has, even sliding off a mountainside all on her own. I don't know that I could do that even with my sight and hearing. When her school's cafeteria didn't provide menus in Braille, she threatened a lawsuit to make them email her and the other blind people in the school the menu the night before. Her love of advocacy gave her the determination to power through her studies at Harvard Law School and become an attorney and I'll leave you to find out the rest of her story.

I would recommend this to anyone looking for a feel-good book, a short read, or a biography.