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"Sometimes I think my whole life has been a journey to find out where my place is. For a long time, I didn't realize everyone is on such a journey. I thought other people, people who were not disabled, had it all figured out -- that it was only I who didn't know where I fit in. Because I was different."
from Chapter 1, Home Bound: Growing Up with a
Disability in America, by Cass Irvin
(Temple University Press, 2004)
If you have read much of Cass Irvin's work in The Disability Rag and Ragged Edge magazines, you will find some of this book familiar. In Home Bound, Irvin tells of the remarkable journey that transformed her from a young girl too timid to ask for help to a community activist and writer. This book also is testimony to the importance of community building and organizing as well as the story of one woman's struggle for independence.
What others are saying about Home Bound:
"'Home Bound' is the sensitive yet hard-nosed account of the frustrations, the embarrassments, the humor -- and the triumphs of a woman who wanted to live a good life."
"Irvin's first book is a smart, entertaining and instructive first-person account of growing up in a pre-ADA America ...[that] hopefully will be found by those new to the disability experience and interested in disability life and culture pre-ADA."
"'Home Bound' is like no other disability book I've ever read... it is a like a novel in every sense. Irvin wrote a book that looks straight at us through the eyes of living disabled, and rarely blinks..."
Irvin "writes with wit and with grace, deliver[ing] a slice of history that is relatively well known to the public-at-large (Roosevelt, Warm Springs, pre-segregation South, JFK) as well as a slice that is relatively unknown (the disability rights movement). In this book we meet both the famous and the unknowns ..."
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