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Product Identifiers
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
ISBN-10
0312671830
ISBN-13
9780312671839
eBay Product ID (ePID)
102965677
Product Key Features
Book Title
Boy in the Moon : a Father's Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2011
Topic
Parenting / Fatherhood, Cultural Heritage, People with Disabilities, Children with Special Needs, Genetics, Medical
Genre
Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Medical
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
13.4 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"A father's candid, heart-wrenching account of raising, loving and trying to connect with and gain insight into his severely disabled son...Much more than a moving journal of life with a disabled child; it is about Brown's quest to understand his son and his son's condition...An absorbing, revealing work of startling frankness."-- Kirkus Reviews "The truth Brown learns from his severely disabled child is a rare one: The life that seems to destroy you is the one you long to embrace."-- New York Times Book Review, A father's candid, heart-wrenching account of raising, loving and trying to connect with and gain insight into his severely disabled son...Much more than a moving journal of life with a disabled child; it is about Brown's quest to understand his son and his son's condition...An absorbing, revealing work of startling frankness., The truth Brown learns from his severely disabled child is a rare one: The life that seems to destroy you is the one you long to embrace., "A father's candid, heart-wrenching account of raising, loving and trying to connect with and gain insight into his severely disabled son...Much more than a moving journal of life with a disabled child; it is about Brown's quest to understand his son and his son's condition...An absorbing, revealing work of startling frankness."-- Kirkus Reviews "The truth Brown learns from his severely disabled child is a rare one: The life that seems to destroy you is the one you long to embrace."-- New York Times Book Review "Unforgettable...Crisp, observant and, occasionally, subversively funny...In the end, as in the beginning, Brown questions the value of a life like Walker's, "lived in the twilight and often in pain." He sometimes locates it in Walker himself. Another answer is this book."-- Cleveland Plain Dealer "Honest and deeply moving."-- Tucson Citizen, "A father's candid, heart-wrenching account of raising, loving and trying to connect with and gain insight into his severely disabled son...Much more than a moving journal of life with a disabled child; it is about Brown's quest to understand his son and his son's condition...An absorbing, revealing work of startling frankness."-- Kirkus Reviews, Unforgettable...Crisp, observant and, occasionally, subversively funny...In the end, as in the beginning, Brown questions the value of a life like Walker's, "lived in the twilight and often in pain." He sometimes locates it in Walker himself. Another answer is this book., "A father's candid, heart-wrenching account of raising, loving and trying to connect with and gain insight into his severely disabled son...Much more than a moving journal of life with a disabled child; it is about Brown's quest to understand his son and his son's condition...An absorbing, revealing work of startling frankness."-- Kirkus Reviews "The truth Brown learns from his severely disabled child is a rare one: The life that seems to destroy you is the one you long to embrace."-- New York Times Book Review "Unforgettable...Crisp, observant and, occasionally, subversively funny...In the end, as in the beginning, Brown questions the value of a life like Walker's, "lived in the twilight and often in pain." He sometimes locates it in Walker himself. Another answer is this book."-- Cleveland Plain Dealer "Honest and deeply moving."-- Tucson Citizen
Dewey Edition
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Dewey Decimal
362.196/042
Synopsis
A New York Times Top 10 Book of 2011 "[A]n intimate glimpse into the life of a family that cares around the clock for a disabled child, that gets so close to the love and despair, and the complex questions the life of such a child raises...It is a beautiful book, heartfelt and profound, warm and wise." --Jane Bernstein, author of Loving Rachel and Rachel in the World Ian Brown's son Walker is one of only about 300 people worldwide diagnosed with cardiofaciocutaneous (CFC) syndrome--an extremely rare genetic mutation that results in unusual facial appearance, the inability to speak, and a compulsion to hit himself constantly. At age thirteen, he is mentally and developmentally between one and three years old and will need constant care for the rest of his life. Brown travels the globe, meeting with genetic scientists and neurologists as well as parents, to solve the questions Walker's doctors can't answer. In his journey, he offers an insightful critique of society's assumptions about the disabled, and he discovers a connected community of families living with this illness. As Brown gradually lets go of his self-blame and hope for a cure, he learns to accept the Walker he loves, just as he is. Honest, intelligent, and deeply moving, The Boy in the Moon explores the value of a single human life.
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