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020    9781984820303|q(hardcover) 
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092    BIO|bLEHRER 
100 1  Lehrer, Riva,|d1958-|eauthor. 
245 10 Golem girl :|ba memoir /|cRiva Lehrer. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bOne World,|c[2020] 
300    xv, 424 pages :|billustrations (chiefly color) ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    "What do we sacrifice in the pursuit of normalcy? And what
       becomes possible when we embrace monstrosity? In 1958, 
       Riva is one of the first children born with spina bifida 
       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--an intimate and collaborative process that will
       transform the way she sees herself, others, and the world.
       With each portrait, and each person's story, the myths 
       she's been told her whole life--about her body, her 
       sexuality, and the value of normalcy--begin to crumble. 
       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 survival 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"--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
600 10 Lehrer, Riva,|d1958-|xHealth. 
650  0 Spina bifida|xPatients|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Artists with disabilities|zUnited States|vBiography.