A review by iffer
Accidents of Nature by Harriet McBryde Johnson

4.0

This book is extremely good in it's own right, but definitely the best that I have read that falls into the genre about disabilities (not that I've read many, and not that many even exist). I think that it's well worth its while for anyone to read for an honest, funny, sharp novel about that gives insight into the disabled community/culture. The novel isn't sentimental, and impressed me with its non-Pollyanna-type ending and the author's description of the main character's sudden coming-of-age moment, one that everyone who's left home and returned changed can empathize with, even if it's not complicated by the realization that Norms, even the ones who love you, can never truly understand what it's like to be a Crip.