Dubuque County Reads: “Sitting Pretty” by Rebekah Taussig at the MFC

Join Carnegie-Stout Public Library for Dubuque County Reads! Discussions of Sitting Pretty: the View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig will be held on eight different dates. Can't attend this discussion? Check out the full schedule to select a different discussion location!

Sitting Pretty is a memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most. Growing up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early 2000s, Rebekah Taussig only saw disability depicted as something monstrous (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), inspirational (Helen Keller), or angelic (Forrest Gump). None of this felt right; and as she got older, she longed for more stories that allowed disability to be complex and ordinary, uncomfortable and fine, painful and fulfilling.

This discussion will be held at the Multicultural Family Center on Monday, April 24 at 6:30 p.m. Print copies of the book are available to borrow from the first floor Circulation Desk at Carnegie-Stout Public Library, at other participating libraries (with a valid library card), or for purchase at River Lights Bookstore for a 30% discount. Residents of the City of Dubuque can borrow an eBook or eAudiobook from Carnegie-Stout's Hoopla collection.

Thank you to the participating organizations: Carnegie-Stout Public Library, Clarke University, Dubuque County Library District, James Kennedy Public Library, Loras College, the Multicultural Family Center, River Lights Bookstore, and the University of Dubuque.