Sipping Dom Pérignon Through A Straw by Eddie Ndopu - ISBN: 9781399803786
Hardcover
Defying limits: disabled, successful, and challenging bias at the highest levels.

Sipping Dom Pérignon Through A Straw

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  • Hardcover

    240 pages

  • Release Date

    14 November 2023

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Summary

“Uncompromising… A masterful writer poised for even more great success” - Forest Whitaker, Academy award-winning actor

A memoir, penned with one good finger, about being profoundly disabled and profoundly successful.

Global humanitarian Eddie Ndopu was born with spinal muscular atrophy, a rare degenerative motor neuron disease affecting his mobility. He was told that he wouldn’t live beyond age five and yet, Ndopu thrived. He grew up loving po…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781399803786
ISBN-10:1399803786
Author:Eddie Ndopu
Publisher:John Murray Press
Imprint:John Murray Publishers Ltd
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:240
Release Date:14 November 2023
Weight:460g
Dimensions:236mm x 160mm x 24mm
Series:Father Anselm Novels
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Critics Review

Sipping Dom Perignon Through a Straw is essential reading for anyone who’s ever wondered how they can do right and do better by disabled people. Eddie has provided a template for allyship while remaining uncompromising in his self-worth. He is a masterful writer poised for even more great success
As an author, Eddie brings us into his reality - one filled fun and love yet oversaturated with barriers and challenges. Nestled in these expressive pages is a crucial lesson on the importance of humanity, the need for radical, comprehensive person-first care
With unflinching honesty and vulnerability, Ndopu’s jaw-dropping story serves as a clarion call for a more inclusive and compassionate world. Prepare to be moved, enlightened, and profoundly touched by the extraordinary life and wisdom of Eddie Ndopu

About The Author

Eddie Ndopu

Eddie Ndopu is an award-winning, internationally acclaimed social justice advocate, humanitarian, public intellectual, and bona fide changemaker. Born in 1990 with Spinal Muscular Atrophy, and given only five years to live, he has gone on to become a beacon of hope and possibility for people with disabilities around the world. Eddie currently serves as Special Advisor to RTW Investments, a leading investor in scientific and medical innovation. He has also advised organizations such as the World Economic Forum, UN Women and Amnesty International. Eddie holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from Oxford University and is setting in motion plans to deliver a televised address to the UN from Space, in an effort to prove that our bodies, our minds, and the limitations placed upon them can defy gravity.

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