“In Great and Unfortunate Things , we see how Arday went from being nonverbal as a child and illiterate until he was eighteen to scaling unimag-inable [sic] heights as an adult. Without romanticizing the struggle, this is a story of determination against seemingly insurmountable odds—and of a family and a small group of believers whose compassion helped him see what is possible.
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