The love letters of abelard and lily5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Narrator Rebecca Gibel authentically portrays Lily's daily frustrations, letting listeners experience the blur of language that Lily tries to understand. Like the real-life medieval lovers Peter Abelard and Heloise before them, the pair find ways to communicate and connect as they face complex medical treatments and life choices that ask them to define what living with "disabilities" means for them. Abelard finds happiness in straightforward absolutes like mathematics and robotics, though his sensitivity with light, sound, and physical touch-as part of his Asperger's-keeps him from having many close friends. Lily loves reading and learning, but owing to dyslexia and ADHD, she struggles with high school's structure and deadlines. Gr 7 Up-Austin, TX, teens Lily Michaels-Ryan and Abelard Mitchell are opposites on the neurological spectrum. ![]()
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