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A review by jessiewolf
Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa
5.0
This book seized me and didn't let me go. I was so taken with Shaka's voice, and her outrageous tweets had me yelping. "I just want to have an abortion like a normal woman" encapsulates so much--Shaka is disabled and she muses that she'd never be able to give birth or provide most of the physical care an infant needs, but there's nothing about her body that would prevent an abortion "like a normal woman." Shaka insists on her agency in the face of ableism again and again, just not in the ways you'd expect. The audacity of demanding one's right to abortion--merely for the experience of it--is both hilarious and sharply poignant. Shaka is unabashed in her desires, and HUNCHBACK presents her story boldly and beautifully. This is a truly stellar novella, and I absolutely loved it.