Go the Way Your Blood Beats

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While doctors told Emmett, then 11, that he would never walk unaided, tabloids sensationalised his story. As a disabled person I really liked how Emmett showed through his own experiences the social versus medical models of disability and both how things have changed over time and yet so many of the same prejudices remain. The more we can amplify positive stories and the more we can amplify diverse narratives – I think that’s all to the good. To them I was the boy on the telly who’d flown to America to get fixed, so they saw me as rejecting them as a disabled community because I’d tried to ‘fix’ myself.

Emmett did not belong anywhere, excluded by other disabled because he was gay, and by other gay people because he was disabled. Honest and intimate, he is not afraid to grapple with painful memories, revealing how the pressures of an abelist, homophobic society impacted his own sense of identity. But the 'miracle' doesn't occur, and Emmett must reckon with a world which views disabled people as invisible, unworthy of desire. Much of the book’s emotional weight comes from the way in which the world built in the family home, or with friends and peers, is constantly thrown up against reductive and violent language from outside institutions: the medical establishment, the education system, the church, members of the public who stare or infantilise.The author’s story runs more or less in parallel to my own, Emmett being just a few years younger than me.

The bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between: this is the fifth volume of the Heartstopper series. I cried, I laughed and I ached my way through it, as a queer disabled person, the authors accounts of his life struck me deep and I couldn't put it down. I really appreciated how he considered his CP through his individual experiences as well as through the social vs medical models of disability, showing that self-hatred doesn’t form in a vacuum. We have many mutual friends but this was our first proper chat and, as you'll hear, it's exactly that - a searingly honest get-to-you-know-you conversation that just so happened to be committed to audio.Viking has landed debut author Emmett de Monterey’s “beautiful, powerful” memoir Go the Way Your Blood Beats following an exclusive submission. Growing up in southeast London in the 1980s, de Monterey is spat at on the street and prayed over at church. In this heart warming discussion we delve deep into Emmett’s story, into the prejudice he encountered, his route to acceptance and the impact his parents played in helping him to embrace his own identity. Even though he was still just a child, he also had to come to terms with the fact that many in the disabled community were not best pleased by his documentary and media coverage. A Audible é um serviço de entretenimento em áudio que oferece aos assinantes acesso ilimitado a mais de 100 mil audiolivros, além da possibilidade de adquirir um catálogo adicional de mais de 300 mil títulos de audiolivros com desconto.

Supposedly life-changing surgery on his legs in America failed to change his life, and in this vivid, affecting memoir he faces with clear-eyed intensity what it is to live the only life you have, even when it falls short of expectations. Such a beautifully written and powerful book which could have been shockingly depressing but you are gently guided through this young man's traumatic life sensitively. There's an immediacy to the prose that sweeps you up in his story, and makes Go the Way Your Blood Beats a really engaging, emotive read.But the miracle doesn’t occur, and he must reckon with a world that views disabled people as invisible, unworthy of desire. He is then chosen for a first-of-its-kind surgery in America which he hopes will ‘cure’ him and enable him to walk unaided. Emmett de Monterey added: “I’m thrilled and delighted that Genesius Pictures will be developing my book for TV. I’m sitting here looking at a blank page, wondering how to word a review that does this frank and honest book justice. His story is a testament to the strength of the human spirit, inspiring readers to be more empathetic and understanding.