Truly enjoyed this autobiography! Highly recommended for both high school and middle school libraries especially. It was fascinating, very readable and accessible, with humor and short episodic chapters. I appreciated the explicit, teachy (in a good way)  chapters on systemic and individual ableism - again, accessible and digestible for teen and tween readers esp. 

Even if she hasn't been Eritrean, this would have been solid but holy cow, ten million bonus points for that! We have so many Eritrean and Ethiopian families in Oakland and Seattle both, and so woefully few books, let alone books with a recognizably Habesha woman and name on the cover. I was already stoked and hopeful about this even before a 12th grade reluctant reader of mine walked by my desk, did a doubletake when she saw it, picked it up to ask, "is she Ethiopian??" and then when I answered, found her Eritrean friend to shake it in her face and say "look, it's your people!" I know both these girls pretty well, they are in the library literally daily  with a posse of other Eritrean and Ethiopian friends -- it's their main place to hang at and after school and has been since they were 9th graders -- and I've never seen either of them be truly excited for a book before.