After living with a woman for 16 years who has had celiac disease since birth, I could feel Beasley's plight between trying to stay safe and trying to be "normal" in the sense that you can go out to eat and not worry. She rebuffs a lot of those critics who call food allergies a sort of bourgeois...
Traditions and celebrations affirm membership in a group or provide comfort in daily repetition or declare passage from one stage to the next. Yet the reality is that my eighteenth birthday party didn’t make me an adult. Nor did graduating from college. Even when I moved into my first postcollege...