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A collection of parents' perspectives at various stages in the lives of children with disabilities paints a beautiful, wrenchingly honest portrait of what it means to care for a child who does not experience the world as we do, in a volume of poems, essays, and fiction by Bret Lott, Jayne Anne Phillips, Michael Bérubé, Penny Wolfson, and others. Original.
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The first collection of literary writing on raising a child with special needs, Love You to Pieces features families coping with autism, deafness, muscular dystrophy, Down syndrome and more. Here, poets, memoirists, and fiction writers paint beautiful, wrenchingly honest portraits of caring for their children, laying bare the moments of rage, disappointment, and guilt that can color their relationships. Parent-child communication can be a challenge at the best of times, but in this collection we witness the struggles and triumphs of those who speak their own language-or don't speak at all-and those who love them deeply.
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