The Hourdin family seemed to want for nothing. Then, in a wartime accident, they lost their eldest daughter. Years later, when Marie-Anne was born—a mongoloid child—they found themselves thrust suddenly into the suffering of mental handicap.
Georges Hourdin tells their story in simple, tender prose: the long struggle he and his wife waged, step by step, with help from a few devoted friends, to secure Marie-Anne a place in the human community. He holds nothing back—the joys and sorrows, the rhythm of memory itself. And woven through it all, questions that this suffering forced upon him. One above all: What is the order of the world?
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