Trapped in America's Safety Net: One Family's Struggle

by Andrea Louise Campbell

Book Overview

When Andrea Louise Campbell's sister-in-law, Marcella Wagner, was run off the freeway by a hit-and-run driver, she was seven-and-a-half months pregnant. She survived-and, miraculously, the baby was born healthy. But that's where the good news ends. Marcella was left paralyzed from the chest down. This accident was much more than just a physical and emotional tragedy. Like so many Americans-50 million, or one-sixth of the country's population-neither...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022614044X
• ISBN13: 9780226140445
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"