Over the last few decades, there has been a concerted effort to improve and increase representation of diverse human experiences in fiction. If you’ve read even somewhat widely, you’ll likely have noticed this yourself. Such an effort is to be lauded - but the fiction landscape still has a way to go to be genuinely reflective of how people across a variety of spectra (race, gender expression, income status) think, feel, and act. Today’s essay looks at one axis - disability representation - through its presentation in one novel. Emilie Morscheck uses that novel (a retelling of Beauty and the Beast) to highlight positive changes in representation, and indicate where there are still changes to be made.