Haben the Deafblind woman who conquered Harvard Law
Haben grew up spending summers with her family in the enchanting Eritrean city of Asmara. There, she discovered courage as she faced off against a bull she couldn't see, and found in herself an abiding strength as she absorbed her parents' harrowing experiences during Eritrea's thirty-year war with...
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New York :
Twelve,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Hello and welcome (introduction)
- The expeditions begin
- War, kings, and the journey to freedom
- Gender and a load of bull
- The girl with the keyboard
- When they took my father
- Dancing in enchanted hills
- Operation get my parents to say yes
- Water fights in the desert
- Adventures in the African night
- Guarding a secret from the village
- A lift out of the latrine
- The confidence question
- The chapter my parents shouldn't read
- Play like no one's watching
- A positive blindness philosophy
- I don't believe fairytales, except this one
- Society's beliefs v. personal experiences : the PB&J case
- Never ever run from a bear
- The little dog that makes earthquakes
- Love is following me up an iceberg
- Not your typical Harvard Law School story
- Kicking butt, legally speaking
- The White House ADA celebration
- Epilogue.
