A memoir by a disability rights activist Such a Pretty Girl is Nadina LaSpinas storyfrom her early years in her native Sicily where still a baby she contracts polio a fact that makes her the object of wellmeaning pity and the target of messages of hopelessness to her adolescence and youth in America spent almost entirely in hospitals where she is tortured in the quest for a cure and made to feel that her body no longer belongs to her to her rebellion and her activism in the disability rights m