Walking In My Sleep

In this vivid intelligent often comical memoir of finding his way in the world as a boy and young man with Cerebral Palsy Michael Cooney founder of Exceptional Ability Entertainment describes his journey to adulthood and from one coast to the other as a series of adventures in which he's sometimes the hero sometimes the loser and sometimes a little in between. With a powerful voice and an accomplished gripping style of storytelling he takes the reader on a voyage involving guitars radio rock and roll love therapy surgeries school falling climbing the Statue of Liberty on his hands and knees learning to tie his shoes at the age of twelve falling some more wheeling solo in a wheelchair in city traffic getting busted by the U.S. government almost going to prison and much more. Anyone who has ever felt like an outsider or an alien as Michael thought of himself as a child will find a rare kinship in these pages as well as the warmth wit and excellent company of a fellow traveler.