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Title: Miracle Boy Grows Up
Subtitle: How the Disability Rights Revolution Saved My Sanity
Author: Ben Mattlin
Narrator: Elijah Alexander
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-23-13
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 16 votes
Genres: Nonfiction, Politics
Publisher's Summary:
No one thought Ben Mattlin would live past childhood. But that didnt stop him.
Ben Mattlin lives a normal, independent life. Why is that interesting? Because Mattlin was born with spinal muscular atrophy, a congenital weakness from which he was expected to die in childhood. Not only did Mattlin live through childhood, he became one of the first students in a wheelchair to attend Harvard, from which he graduated and became a professional writer. His advantage? Mattlins life happened to parallel the growth of the disability rights movement, so that in many ways he did not feel that he was disadvantaged at all, merely different.
Miracle Boy Grows Up is a witty, unsentimental memoir that you wont forget, told with engrossing intelligence and a unique perspective on living with a disability in the United States.
Editorial Reviews:
If getting into Harvard sounds like an accomplishment, try getting into Harvard when you have spinal muscular atrophy and need an assistant for the most basic tasks, like tying your shoes or taking a shower. Ben Mattlin wasn't supposed to outlive his childhood, but as listeners come to find out - thanks in part to a warm and energetic performance by veteran narrator, Elijah Alexander - Mattlin not only makes it past childhood, but onto Harvard and into an accomplished writing career. Miracle Boy Grows Up is an amusing and unsentimental look at growing up not only with a life-altering disability, but growing up right in the middle of America's disability rights movement.