**NATIONAL BESTSELLER * *• ONE OF USA TODAY’S MUST-READ BOOKS **•*** * This groundbreaking memoir offers a glimpse into an activist’s journey to finding and cultivating community and the continued fight for disability justice, from the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project **“Alice Wong provides deep truths in this fun and deceptively easy read about her survival in this hectic and ableist society.” —Selma Blair, bestselling author of *Mean Baby*** ** In Chinese culture, the tiger is deeply revered for its confidence, passion, ambition, and ferocity. That same fighting spirit resides in Alice Wong. Drawing on a collection of original essays, previously published work, conversations, graphics, photos, commissioned art by disabled and Asian American artists, and more, Alice uses her unique talent to share an impressionistic scrapbook of her life as an Asian American disabled activist, community organizer, media maker, and dreamer. From her love of food and pop culture to her unwavering commitment to dismantling systemic ableism, Alice shares her thoughts on creativity, access, power, care, the pandemic, mortality, and the future. As a self-described disabled oracle, Alice traces her origins, tells her story, and creates a space for disabled people to be in conversation with one another and the world. Filled with incisive wit, joy, and rage, Wong’s *Year of the Tiger* will galvanize readers with big cat energy.
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delphimo (verified owner) –
Year of the Tiger did not seem like a book that I would relish reading. I learned so much from Alice Wong’s ranting about individuals with disabilities. Alice Wong was born with muscular dystrophy and has battled with the consequences of this muscle ailment her entire life. In 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act became a legal aid, but this only provided little some assistance for disabled individuals. Alice Wong details such problems as schoolrooms at all levels of education, access to buildings and buses, plastic straws available in restaurants, and assistance with daily functions such as dressing and eating. I also did not realize the scope of Medicaid, especially in assistance for disabled persons. Prior to ADA, the majority of disabled people had to depend on family and friends or spending a life in hiding. Alice Wong’s family assisted her in her quest to fight for equality in living a quasi-normal life. The novel contains many pictures and drawings that show the ravages of muscular dystrophy and Alice’s coping with this terrible disease. Look around when you visit a store or restaurant and try to notice if you had to use a wheelchair, could you enter the building.