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...
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New York, N.Y. :
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.