Squeaky Wheels: Travels with My Daughter by Train, Plane, Metro, Tuk-tuk and Wheelchair - Softcover

Kamata, Suzanne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1948018446 ISBN 13: 9781948018449

Publisher: Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

SQUEAKY WHEELS: Travels with my Daughter by Train, Plane, Metro, Tuk-tuk and Wheelchair is a mother-daughter travel memoir woven with comparative culture and accessibility awareness. Kamata’s adventures with her teen—who happens to be deaf, with cerebral palsy, and in a wheelchair—through subterranean Tennessee, to the islands of Japan, and to the top of the Eiffel Tower ultimately lead to a daughter’s increasing independence, a mother letting go of expectations, and advocacy for travel which prohibits discrimination.

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Review:

"I spent two happy afternoons captivated by Squeaky Wheels. Kamata's skill as a journalist vividly immersed me in Japanese daily life (education, social mores, food, high and low culture, parenting) from the perspective of an American mother raising a biracial child in Tokushima. The second half of the book brought Paris to life in delicious detail. Having lived there twice, I delighted in how beautifully Kamata captured the sights, the sounds, the Gallic character I so miss." --  Claire Fontaine, co-author of Come Back: A Mother and Daughter's Journey Through Hell and Back and Have Mother, Will Travel: A Mother and Daughter Discover Themselves, Each Other, and the World.
Squeaky Wheels is a beautiful record of a mother's journey with her wheelchair-using daughter around the world. You'll love travelling with Suzanne and Lilia in Japan, America, France and beyond, exploring art, culture, food and life. More than a travelogue, however, it's a moving odyssey of a mother's determination to give her daughter room to dream, create, and be herself without barriers of any kind. With honesty, humour, insight and courage, Squeaky Wheels shows us that the best part of travel is always coming home to ourselves.  
--Leza Lowitz, author of In Search of the Sun: One Woman's Quest to Find Family in Japan

Thanks  to Suzanne Kamata for taking me on this journey to Paris and beyond.  Her story of traveling with Lilia was thoroughly engaging, with much to say about what it means to parent fearlessly.  Life presents obstacles, but you don't know which can be overcome without taking risks, and the fine balance between toughing it out and learning to accept help can't be learned until you're out there, pushing the limits.  Bravo to Suzanne and Lilia - it was a pleasure spending time with you. -- Jane Bernstein, Author of Rachel in the World: A Memoir 

"Kamata's vivid descriptions, razor-sharp sense of humor and willingness to open her heart and innermost thoughts to us makes this a delightful read from beginning to end." -- Tokyo Weekender

"Squeaky Wheels is a thoroughly enjoyable, frank mother and daughter tale of self-discovery that dishes up plenty of captivating travel inspiration along the way." -- Pink Pangea 

2019 Next Generation Indie Book Awards: Winner in Travel/Travel Guide2019 Next Generation Indie Book Awards: Finalist in Parenting2019 Living Now Body Award -- Gold Medal2019 International Book Awards: Finalist in Travel2019 Book Excellence Awards: Finalist in Travel

About this edition

• Publisher: Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1948018446
• ISBN 13: 9781948018449
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 212