Cover; Contents; Author's Note; 1 Baby; 2 Conceptions; 3 One on Every Street; 4 Substitutions; 5 The Fairy Hill; 6 Jesus Loves Me; 7 Fair Exchange; 8 "Progress and Happiness"; 9 Revolutions; 10 Normalization; 11 Becoming Human; 12 Into the Fire; 13 Breakthroughs; 14 Echoes; 15 Crossing Over; 16 Ashes; 17 Remembering; 18 Not Ending; 19 Second Chances; 20 How Far You've Come; 21 Remember Every Name; Postscript; Acknowledgments; A Note on Sources
Summary
A World without Martha is an unflinching yet compassionate memoir of how one sister's institutionalization for intellectual disability in the 1960s affected the other, sending them both on separate but parallel journeys shaped initially by society's inability to accept difference and later by changing attitudes towards disability, identity, and inclusion
