Disability - A Novella (Paperback, 2nd ed.)

Told in a broken shorthand voice, Mazza's language is acute, evoking a place where the patients, the caregivers, and the system are all disabled. Teri and Cleo are minimum-wage nurse-aides at a state ward for severely retarded and physically handicapped children. They are expected to feed, bathe, clothe, and carry out the required therapies for their patients in a 4-hour shift. They're working within a system where money for therapy is only continued if therapy shows improvement--and yet the state-paid therapists who oversee the ward know the patients will never show any improvement. To keep the money coming in, it is up to the minimum-wage caregivers to "see" and chart important improvements, thus keeping the therapy program alive.
Blinded in their own way by their pet-like adoption of favorite patients, Teri and Cleo struggle to remain both optimistic and realistic. As their personal failures mount--and even transpose or emulate the travesties within the state ward--Teri and Cleo, with their own unseen "disabilities" in dealing with their lives and pasts, react harshly to the breakdown in the emotional balancing act.

General

Imprint:	Fiction Collective Two
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2005
First published:	February 2005
Authors:	Cris Mazza
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	100
Edition:	2nd ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-57366-121-8
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	1-57366-121-X
Barcode:	9781573661218

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