Books similar like Such a Pretty Girl: A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride

Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist

One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of fighting for the right to receive an education, have a job, and just be human.

A story of fighting to b…

Buy this book on Amazon

Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

In fairy tales, happy endings are the norm—as long as you're beautiful and walk on two legs. After all, the ogre never gets the princess. And since fairy tales are the foundational myths of our cultur…

Buy this book on Amazon

Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life

From the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, and the editor of the acclaimed anthology Disability Visibility, a genre-bending memoir in essays offers a glimpse into an activist'…

Buy this book on Amazon

Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revolutionary collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability exper…

Buy this book on Amazon

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for th…

Buy this book on Amazon

Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body tha…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Quiet Librarian

After the murder of her best friend, a librarian’s search for answers leads back to her own dark secrets in this sweeping novel about a woman transformed by war, family, vengeance, and love, from awar…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Bandit Queens

Geeta's no-good husband disappeared five years ago. She didn't kill him, but everyone thinks she did--no matter how much she protests.

But she soon discovers that being known as a "self-made" widow ha…

Buy this book on Amazon

Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism

A deafblind writer and professor explores how the misrepresentation of disability in books, movies, and TV harms both the disabled community and everyone else.

As a deafblind woman with partial vision …

Buy this book on Amazon

Memorial

A funny, sexy, profound dramedy about two young people at a crossroads in their relationship and the limits of love.

Benson and Mike are two young guys who live together in Houston. Mike is a Japanese …

Buy this book on Amazon

True Biz

Buy this book on Amazon

The Ballad of Black Tom

People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there.

Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flu…

Buy this book on Amazon

Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases

How did it start? Why did it spread? How do we stop it?
Packed with one thrilling medical mystery after another, Patient Zero tells the curious stories of 21 of the world's worst disease—including smal…

Buy this book on Amazon

A Woman Is No Man

This debut novel by a Palestinian-American voice takes us inside the lives of a conservative Arab family living in America. In Brooklyn, eighteen-year-old Deya is starting to meet with suitors. Though…

Buy this book on Amazon

Merry Inkmas

Cash Evans knows exactly what he wants for Christmas. Too bad he can’t have her.

The infamous tattoo artist’s been watching geeky Bailey Cooper for months, but that’s all he’ll ever do: watch. Bailey’s…

Buy this book on Amazon

You Exist Too Much

On a hot day in Bethlehem, a 12-year-old Palestinian-American girl is yelled at by a group of men outside the Church of the Nativity. She has exposed her legs in a biblical city, an act they deem forb…

Buy this book on Amazon

A Grandmother Begins the Story

Award-winning author Michelle Porter makes her fiction debut with an enchanting and original story of the unrivaled desire for healing and the power of familial bonds across five generations of Métis …

Buy this book on Amazon

Sacrificios humanos

María Fernanda Ampuero se ha convertido en una de las voces indispensables de la literatura latinoamericana. Su libro Pelea de gallos (2018) ha sido en estos tres años todo un fenómeno que forma parte…

Buy this book on Amazon

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

From a childhood survivor of the Cambodian genocide under the regime of Pol Pot, this is a riveting narrative of war crimes and desperate actions, the unnerving strength of a small girl and her family…

Buy this book on Amazon

Bitter (Pet, #0.5)

From the critically acclaimed author of Pet and The Death of Vivek Oji, Bitter, a companion novel to Pet, takes a timely and riveting look at the power of youth, protest and art.

Bitter is thrilled to …

Buy this book on Amazon

Such a Pretty Girl: A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride

Similar books (20)