This book made an immediate and strong impression. It's a well-written diary—fast-paced, clear, and engaging. The author captures the questions, emotions, and anxieties that parents face when their child has a disability with real insight. More importantly, she doesn't impose solutions; instead, she suggests perspectives for navigating family crisis that we've long championed: ways to hold on to hope and find reasons to smile again.
The author is the right person for this task: a professional who works with families in crisis, and a mother of a child with a limb malformation. That last detail, I'll admit, gives me pause. We know of far more complicated situations that nonetheless allow a mother to say her child will be able to do countless other things. So where does this book fit in?
The author is honest, and she's writing from experience with a specific kind of physical disability. That's precisely why I recommend it. I genuinely hope this kind of approach becomes available to every family living through difficult times. We can't rank suffering on a scale, as if some disabilities are lighter than others. I'd suggest this book to anyone who wants to read it. Because some of these insights can genuinely free up energy for facing truly hard experiences.
Cristina Tersigni, 2013