In the next pick in our back-to-school book series, Amherst, Massachusetts, writer Cammie McGovern wants young people to think differently about their peers with disabilities.
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McGovern’s latest young-adult novel, “A Step Toward Falling,” is narrated in large part by a cognitively impaired high school student — who happens to be obsessed with the BBC miniseries “Pride and Prejudice” and its star, Colin Firth.
Click the audio player above to hear New England Public Radio’s Karen Brown interview McGovern. It starts with the author reading her character’s declaration of love.