Following Ezra: What One Father Learned about Gumby, Otters, Autism, and Love from His Extraordi Nary Son

ISBN-13: 9780451234636 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 256 str.

Tom Fields-Meyer

Opis

A heartwarming, intimate and amusing memoir of a father's experience raising his autistic son. When Tom Fields-Meyer's son Ezra was three and showing early signs of autism, a therapist suggested that the father needed to grieve.
-For what?- he asked.
The answer: -For the child he didn't turn out to be.-
That moment helped strengthen the author's resolve to do just the opposite: to love the child Ezra was, a quirky boy with a fascinating and complex mind. Full of tender moments and unexpected humor, Following Ezra is the story of a father and son on a ten-year journey from Ezra's diagnosis to the dawn of his adolescence. It celebrates his growth from a remote toddler to an extraordinary young man, connected in his own remarkable ways to the world around him.