Accidents of Nature by Harriet McBryde Johnson

Send as gift Add to Wish List

Almost ready!

In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.

Accidents of Nature

by Harriet McBryde Johnson

Narrator Jenna Lamia

This audiobook uses AI narration.

We’re taking steps to make sure AI narration is transparent.

Learn more

Length 5 hours 40 minutes

Language English

Send as gift Add to Wish List

Almost ready!

In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.

Summary
About the author
About the narrator

Seventeen-year-old Jean has cerebral palsy and gets around in a wheelchair, but she’s always believed she’s just the same as everyone else. She goes to normal school and has normal friends. She’s never really known another disabled person before she arrives at Camp Courage. But there Jean meets Sara, who welcomes her to “Crip Camp” and nicknames her Spazzo. Sara has radical theories about how people fit into society. She’s full of rage and revolution against pitying insults and the lack of respect for people with disabilities.
As Jean joins a community unlike any she has ever imagined, she comes to question her old beliefs and look at the world in a new light. The camp session is only ten days long, but that may be all it takes to change a life forever.

YA Fiction Perspectives on Disability

Harriet McBryde Johnson was an author, attorney, and advocate for disability rights. She held a Bachelor's degree in History from Charleston Southern University and a Master's degree in Public Administration from the College of Charleston, as well as a JD from the University of South Carolina. Living and operating a private practice in South Carolina since 1985, she spoke out for the benefits and civil rights claims of poor and working people with disabilities. She wrote both nonfiction books about disability issues and works of fiction, including her 2006 novel Accidents of Nature. Johnson died in 2008.

Jenna Lamia has appeared on- and off-Broadway, as well as on television in Law and Order: SVU, Strangers with Candy, HBO's Oz, and MTV's Awkward., of which she is also the coexecutive producer. Her film credits include The Fighter and The Call.