Look Up for Yes

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Summary: Make it mandatory reading for anyone in the medical field!
Review: A nurse recommended the book to my sister. She said it changed the way she treats patients. My sister read it in one afternoon. It makes you think and reminds you to count your blessings!

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Summary: Wrting Look Up for Yes
Review: I met Julia Tavalaro in the fall of 1991 when I was hired to teach a writing workshop at a New York City hospital. In 1993, after I was interviewed by Bill Moyers' executive producer, I received a phone call from a New York Times reporter. I soon introduced this reporter to Julia. The outcome of this meeting was an article that partially documented Julia's remarkable will to survive despite twenty-five years of physical, spiritual, and psychological trauma. After the Times article appeared, Julia and I began to write her autobiography. Using a letter board to communicate, we talked for more than fifteen hundred hours about her experiences in a public hospital. During the time it took to write this book, we were both pressed to our limits as writers and human beings. We each had our successes, too--publication of Julia's poems in the Los Angeles Times and the publication of mine in the Paris Review and Pushcart Prize XXI. From the beginning I kept an intimate journal about what it was like to work with Julia, documenting the many obstacles and victories we experienced on our way to completing Look Up for Yes

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Summary: Good Job Julia
Review: I thought that the book was exelent and that Julia could have talked more about her family and more about Goldwater. Overall she did a fantastic job at writing this book.

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Summary: Look up, and up, and up, and up!
Review: Those who weap because they have no shoes should meet this woman who has no feet, no hands, no voice, no normalcy. And yet she greets the day with poetry and refuses -- against odds few people could bear -- to loosen her grip on reality, on the future, on hope. Where some autobiographical writers might seek our pity, Julia demands our respect. Where some labor to generate tears, Julia aims to generate cheers -- and at times outbursts of profanity. Her story is a fast, easy-to-follow read packed with flashbacks, present-day tales and, the most essential element of all, hope