Disability - Reviews

"Disability is consistently provocative and interesting. It refuses to fit into the literary and political contexts it seems to invoke, and so defines its own genre and terminology."

—American Book Review

"Bold readers, brace yourselves. Cris Mazza has found the perfect subject for her high-energy prose and her pitch-black compassion: an Institution serving, and staffed by, the 'disabled.' Mazza's sexually confused caregivers and the doomed exuberant boy they love all come to frightening life. But calling this a 'slice of' life would diminish it: Disability is as dense, relentless, tender, savage and strange as moment-by-moment life itself, conjured on the page whole."

—Elizabeth Searle (author of Celebrities in Disgrace and A Four-sided Bed)

"Written in a shorthand style without any punctuation besides periods, the story builds a tangible energy among the characters."

—Library Journal Review