![]() ![]() Autism is likely not to result from a single cause, and there are genetic factors involved, autism is not something we have, but something we are. Autism cannot be cured, and even if it could be, it shouldn’t. The premise of much of the book is the tragedy that of the child who died had been ‘cured’. This discussion and review will mostly be focusing on Elizabeth and Teresa’s perspectives, as the mothers of disabled children they can’t help but think they’d be better off without. The narrative follows her court case through multiple perspectives: Pak, Young, and Mary, the Korean family who owned the treatment facility, and Teresa, Elizabeth, and Matt, the people who used it. Two people are killed: an autistic child, and the mother of an autistic child.Įlizabeth, whose son died in the explosion is arrested on suspicion of murder. When a fire is started underneath the facility the oxygen ignites. The book revolves around a disaster at a hyperbaric oxygen treatment facility, where patients sit in a submarine and inhale pure oxygen under high pressure. Instead, I found myself reading one of the most ableist books I’ve ever read. That sounds like it would be, should be, great. ![]() It was an OwnVoices Korean court case mystery written by a lawyer. ![]() I wanted to give Miracle Creek by Angie Kim a chance. ![]()
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