Such a Pretty GirlA memoir by a disability rights activist Such a Pretty Girl is Nadina LaSpina's storyfrom her early years in her native Sicily, where still a baby she contracts polio, a fact that makes her the object of well meaning 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