![]() ![]() ![]() Sara urges resistance by the self-named "Crip Camp" residents against philanthropists and the "able-bodied" counselors, who mean well yet are patronizing. The friendships Jean makes at the cross-disability Camp Courage and the new ideas she learns from her activist friend Sara change Jean's outlook. Johnson, an activist and lawyer who was born with a congenital neuromuscular disease, also published a memoir, Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from A Life (2005). Accidents of Nature could instigate a paradigm shift in how teenage readers look at bodies and consider the concepts of "normal" and "different" regarding mobility and speech. Set in 1970 and partly autobiographical, this novel geared toward a young adult audience uncovers the need for a disability rights movement. The novel Accidents of Natureby Harriet McBryde Johnson depicts the summer camp experiences of Jean, a senior who attends public high school in a small Southern town and who has cerebral palsy. ![]()
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