Gerald M. Weinberg: Writer - Consultant
Dedicated to Helping Smart People be Happy
Gerald M. Weinberg: Writer - Consultant
Dedicated to Helping Smart People be Happy
The Hands of God
By Gerald M. Weinberg
How would you live if you lost your hands? Could you feed yourself?
Clean yourself? What about opening a door? How would you dress
yourself, or tie your shoes? Would everyone you ever loved consider you
a freak? A monster?
Pamela Ruka knows the answers to these questions, and more. When she
was six years old, she lost her hands in the accident that claimed her
mother's life.
She is taken in by a grandfather who holds her hostage for eight years,
hoping for insurance money to pay his mounting gambling debts. He locks
her in his Albuquerque home, hiding her from the world, and making her
eat off the floor like a dog.
In those years when other kids are in school learning to play games,
Pamela stays home alone and compensates for her lost hands by studying
patterns, learning to anticipate and avoid what she cannot control.
Through a series of adventures Pamela grows from a helpless orphan into
an independent young woman who transforms her handicap into the ability
to interact with computers in ways that save lives.
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