In Sickness and in Health

✍ Scribed by Mattlin, Ben

• Book ID: 109740138
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 303 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780807058558

✦ Synopsis

A frank, humorous exploration of inter-abled dating, love, and marriage
In Sickness and Health is more than an "inspiring" story of how a man born with spinal muscular atrophy--a congenital and incurable neuromuscular disease--survived childhood, graduated from Harvard, married an able-bodied woman, built a family, and lived happily ever after. Author Ben Mattlin also issues a challenge to readers: Why should the idea of an "inter-abled" couple be regarded as either tragic or noble?
Mattlin's wife recalls falling in love with his confidence and sheer determination. On one of their earliest dates, he persuaded her to ride on his lap in his wheelchair on their way home from an Elvis Costello concert. Thirty years later, they still travel like this from time to time, undaunted by the curious stares following them down the street.
Through conversations with more than a dozen other couples of varying abilities, ethnic backgrounds, and orientations,...