How I Became a Human Being: A Disabled Man's Quest for Independence by Mark O'Brien

How I Became a Human Being: A Disabled Man's Quest for Independence

Mark O'Brien

280 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional informative inspiring medium-paced
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In September 1955 six-year-old Mark O’Brien moved his arms and legs for the last time. He came out of a coma to find himself enclosed from the neck down in an iron lung, the machine in which he would live for much of the rest of his life.    For t...

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