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Golem Girl - A Memoir - 'A hymn to life, love, family, and spirit' DAVID MITCHELL (Hardcover)
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Golem Girl - A Memoir - 'A hymn to life, love, family, and spirit' DAVID MITCHELL (Hardcover)
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'A hymn to life, love, family, and spirit' DAVID MITCHELL, author
of Cloud Atlas The vividly told, gloriously illustrated memoir of
an artist born with disabilities who searches for freedom and
connection in a society afraid of strange bodies. ***WINNER OF THE
BARBELLION PRIZE*** ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS
CIRCLE AWARD*** In 1958, amongst the children born with spina
bifida is Riva Lehrer. At the time, most such children are not
expected to survive. Her parents and doctors are determined to
'fix' her, sending the message over and over again that she is
broken. That she will never have a job, a romantic relationship, or
an independent life. Enduring countless medical interventions, Riva
tries her best to be a good girl and a good patient in the quest to
be cured. Everything changes when, as an adult, Riva is invited to
join a group of artists, writers, and performers who are building
Disability Culture. Their work is daring, edgy, funny, and dark-it
rejects tropes that define disabled people as pathetic,
frightening, or worthless. They insist that disability is an
opportunity for creativity and resistance. Emboldened, Riva asks if
she can paint their portraits-inventing an intimate and
collaborative process that will transform the way she sees herself,
others, and the world. Each portrait story begins to transform the
myths she's been told her whole life about her body, her sexuality,
and other measures of normal. Written with the vivid, cinematic
prose of a visual artist, and the love and playfulness that defines
all of Riva's work, Golem Girl is an extraordinary story of
tenacity and creativity. With the author's magnificent portraits
featured throughout, this memoir invites us to stretch ourselves
toward a world where bodies flow between all possible forms of what
it is to be human. 'Riva Lehrer is a great artist and a great
storyteller. This is a brilliant book, full of strangeness, beauty,
and wonder' AUDREY NIFFENEGGER 'This astonishing, heart soaring and
often shocking memoir of a Jewish woman with spina Bifida born in
the 50's is bright and dark, terrifying and wonderful. An ode to
art and the beauty of disability' CERRIE BURNELL
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Imprint: |
Virago Press Ltd
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
December 2020 |
Authors: |
Riva Lehrer
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Dimensions: |
238 x 162 x 44mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
448 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-349-01481-4 |
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LSN: |
0-349-01481-7 |
Barcode: |
9780349014814 |
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