Go the Way Your Blood Beats
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Mateo Oxley
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AN EXTRAORDINARILY MOVING AND ORIGINAL MEMOIR OF GROWING UP GAY AND DISABLED IN 1980S LONDON
When Emmett de Monterey is eighteen months old, a doctor diagnoses him with cerebral palsy. Words too heavy for his twenty-five-year-old artist parents and their happy, smiling baby.
Growing up in south-east London in the 1980s, Emmett is spat at on the street and prayed over at church. At his mainstream school, teachers refuse to schedule his classes on the ground floor, and he loses a stone from the effort of getting up the stairs. At his sixth form college for disabled students, he's told he will be expelled if the rumours are true, if he's gay.
And then Emmett is chosen for a first-of-its-kind surgery in America which he hopes will 'cure' him, enable him to walk unaided. He hopes for a miracle: to walk, to dance, to be able to leave the house when it rains. To have a body that's everyday beautiful, to hold hands in the street. To not be gay, which feels like another word for loneliness. But the 'miracle' doesn't occur, and Emmett must reckon with a world which views disabled people as invisible, unworthy of desire. He must fight to be seen.
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- David Gwinnutt
- 10-05-24
A very original story
Shocking and touching in equal measure. Some brilliant use of language sets the book above others
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- Jackie
- 14-08-23
A life journey meant to be shared
....I listened in one sitting and having been judged throughout my own life by my physical self in cruel, ignorant ways, I shared so many emotions while also learning the true struggles of a person with CP. while a sad reminder of the amount of ignorance and cruelty that exists, it also pushes people of kindness to stand up for anyone being bullied. It is truly an important listen.
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- MRS
- 30-08-23
A story to which anyone could relate .
Such a beautifully written and powerful book which could have been shockingly depressing but you are gently guided through this young man's traumatic life sensitively. Although I have not had such prejudice directed at me, my sister, who also has cerebral palsy, did and has had to deal with it all her life. My son also was bullied because he was quieter, sensitive and not sporty but did not tell us so came out of school with a stammer and a stoop.
Emmett did not belong anywhere, excluded by other disabled because he was gay, and by other gay people because he was disabled. Even when his parents did all they could to ease his difficulties this was held against him. And then there was Mrs Thatcher.
This is definitely a book for Book Clubs, so readable.
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