Kategoria BISAC: Biography & Autobiography >> People with Disabilities

"Extraordinary... Greenfeld details what it is like to grow up next to a 'beautiful' boy with whom he can never play and never connect and who never returns his love, but who, nonetheless, is the most important fact of his life."
-- Michael Thompson, Ph.D., co-author of Raising Cain

"Beautiful and powerful .... A masterpiece of literature and memory."
-- Walter Isaacson, author of Einstein: His Life and Universe

"Gripping."
-- Washington Post

A WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR...

"In these lyrical, searing pages, Guest manages to break our hearts and put them back together again."
--Ann Hood

In the tradition of Lucy Grealy's Autobiography of a Face, One More Theory About Happiness is a bold and original memoir from the acclaimed, Whiting Award-winning poet Paul Guest, author of My Index of Horrifying Knowledge. A remarkable account of the accident that left him a quadriplegic, and his struggle to find independence, love, and a life on his own terms, One More Theory About Happiness has been praised by Charles Bock,...

Faith. Trust. Triumph.

"I'm sorry," the doctor said. "He is permanently and totally blind. There is nothing we can do for him."

George and Sarah Hingson looked at each other, devastated. Their six-month-old son, Michael was a happy, strawberry blond baby boy, healthy and normal in every way except one. When the Hingsons switched on a light or made silly faces, Michael did not react. Ever. "My best suggestion is that you send him to a home for the blind," the doctor continued. "He will never be able to do anything for himself."

Forty-seven years...

When a terrible accident left Roy blind at the age of 22, he didn't know what
his future would hold. Then he met Diane, who had been blind since birth.
Their experiences with blindness were different, but together they knew they
could overcome any obstacles that came their way.

Despite prejudice, mistreatment, and assumptions about their abilities, they
married, lived independently, and started a family.

Their story of love, perseverance, and family is told by their sighted daughter
who captures what real life was like in this family.

Just thirty hours before, Jeff had been at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon cheering on his girlfriend, Erin, when the first bomb went off at his feet. As he was rushed to the hospital, he...

In later years, as her mother battled mental illness and denied having taken the drug thalidomide--known to cause birth defects--Cronin felt apart from her family. After the death of a close brother, she turned to alcohol. Eventually, however, she found the strength to set out on her own, volunteering at hospitals and earning a PhD in clinical psychology.

Reflecting with humor and grace on her youth, search for love, and quest for answers, Cronin spins a shimmering story of self-discovery and transformation.

The book is about a couple which is under extreme pressure to maintain a normal life despite the ravages of the diseases: diabetes, Alzheimer's, four bouts of strokes, and congestive heart failure, which have befallen the author's wife. The story is ongoing as the author's wife is still resisting the diseases.

The book has only two main characters, the author and his wife. The author, acting as caregiver to his wife, is implementing his mission which is to provide his wife the utmost health care and affordable conveniences while she is still able to appreciate the physical aspects of...