Fractured

Key Selling Points

Not only a writer, Susan Mockler is also a psychologist in Kingston, ON. Susan Mockler has published in a variety of Canadian and US magazines, including Voices From the FOLD: A Festival Magazine, 2020 Editor's Choice Award Winner, THIS Magazine, Geist, and Taddle Creek. By recounting her experiences of acquiring a physical disability, Susan Mockler hopes to share the challenges she faced, particularly in terms of how societal assumptions, prejudices, and discrimination toward disabled people often infantilizes and marginalizes them. Readers wishing to understand the experience of acquired disability and to learn about the ways in which ableism is pervasive in society will enjoy this book. Will also appeal to disabled people, disabled activists, and those who work with or on behalf of people with disabilities such as doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, social workers, psychologists, rehabilitation professionals, and more. In writing this book Susan Mockler has accepted the title of disability rights activist, and sees herself as "unapologetically disabled."