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

I really loved this mother-daughter travel story. When I started it, I thought it would show how Suzanne Kamata made it possible for her daughter to travel overseas from their home in Japan. Lilia was born three months premature and developed cerebral palsy and lost her hearing at birth. Suzanne had......more

Suzanne Kamata grew up in Grand Haven, Michigan. She went to Japan to teach English, fell in love, and married a Japanese man. She gave birth to micro-preemie twins, one of whom was deaf and had cerebral palsy. Kamata recounts her struggles in learning to support and advocate for her daughter, while......more

I truly love this mother/daughter memoir about travel and advocacy and exploration. Told with love and humor, these essays are immediately engrossing and fascinating both in terms of their unique takes on locales both exotic and familiar, and as a wonderful example of a parent letting go of expectat......more

Squeaky Wheels was released a few days apart from my own book, and for the last two weeks our two books have largely traded spots as the Amazon number one new release in one of our book categories. I had to read this book and find out more! My review is a little writer-nerdy because I just went thro......more