33 and the Finger is the autobiographical story of the many challenges the author overcame and the discrimination he faced for being both handicapped and African-American. Sibley was born with only the little finger on his right hand and the thumb and one finger on his left hand, but at a young age he decided this would never slow him down. ''I not only could do what the others do, I could do it better. Some things I did a different way, but I got the job done.'' With the enthusiastic support of his mother and lessons learned from attending a school for handicapped children, Sibley enters life determined to provide for himself. He works a series of jobs and manages to support himself and, soon, his new wife and children. He finds his calling as an automobile mechanic. But as a disabled African-American, Sibley is paid less than his co-workers. Still, his skills are impressive enough that he frequently trains new mechanics. He eventually becomes foreman, but the resistance he meets...

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