Hazard
Subtitle: a sister's flight from family and a broken boy
By: Margaret Combs
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9781510715318
Subjects: Family relationships; Autistic children; Brothers and sisters; Biography
Description: "Hazard is a poignant, unflinching memoir of the emotional intricacies of growing up with a severely disabled sibling. Margaret Combs shows how her Southern Baptist family coped with the lived reality of autism in an era of ignorance and shame, the 1950s through the 1970s, and shares her own tragedy and anguish of being torn between helping her brother and yearning for her own life. Initially fueled by a wish that her brother had never been born, the author eventually arrives to a deeper place of gratitude for this same brother, whom she loves and who loves her in return"--