As the mother of a special needs child, author Kelly C. Miltimore, BSN, RN, has learned to appreciate the many gifts this challenge has brought to her life. But the journey has been a long and lonely road filled with uncertainty and isolation from the "typical" world most people inhabit. In "A Zebra in a Field of Horses," she provides support for others heading down this road less traveled.

Rather than delivering answers or solutions, Miltimore reaches out in heartfelt conversation about what it's like to first discover that your child is different, to come to terms with it, and to...