Description: Drawing on memoir, history, and theory, Eli Clare complicates the understanding of cure, seeing it as an ideology that serves contradictory purposes--from saving lives to social control--while critiquing cure rhetoric and the drive to cure disabled people through an insistence of the value of disability.
Review Quotes: "Vermont has many national treasures living quietly among us, and one of them is Addison County resident Eli Clare. His latest book, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure, is revelatory, a clarion call for changing the medicalized disability narrative of defective brokenness."--John Killacky "Vermont Public Radio"