Flid

Collin Stewart

Sinopsis

‘Flid’ is a book about a character. A character with a disability. But forget everything you think you know about disability and meet Kevin.What follows is a moving – and sometimes comic – account of a life lived to the max. No arms, no legs – no problem! Watch as Kevin navigates his way through school, the workplace and university, _breaking barriers at every step. An optimistic and ebullient force, it is only when Kevin unexpectedly finds love again, in later years, that he is called upon to reassess a condition he has long come to accept.

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