Exiting Nirvana: A Daughter's Life with Autism
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ISBN: 0316691178 / Publisher: Little, Brown, March 2001
A mother's memoir of her life with autism reveals the pain and beauty of her persistent and ultimately successful fight to bring her daughter Jessy out of the autism.
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Park wrote about her autistic daughter in a previous book, The Siege; A Family's Journey into the World of an Autistic Child . Here she continues the story, describing Jessy Park's development as an adult and as an artist. Oliver Sacks provides the foreword; appendices list resources relevant to autism. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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