Falling
Subtitle: a daughter, a father, and a journey back
By: Elisha Cooper
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Pantheon
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9781101871232; 9781101871249
Subjects: Artists, Architects, Photographers; Cancer; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS; Illustrators; American Authors; Fathers and daughters; Parenting; Patients; Personal Memoirs; Fatherhood; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY; Cancer in children; Biography
Description: Elisha Cooper spends his mornings writing and illustrating children's books, his afternoons playing with his two daughters. The phrase he hates most is "throw like a girl," so he teaches them to climb trees and play ball. But when he discovers a lump in five-year-old Zoe's midsection as she sits on his lap at a Chicago Cubs game, everything changes. Surgery, sleepless nights, treatments, a drumbeat of worry. Even as the family moves to New York and Zoe starts kindergarten, they must navigate a new normal: school and soccer games and hot chocolates in cafes regularly interrupted by anxious visits to the hospital. And Elisha is forced to balance his desires to be a protective parent even as he encourages his girls to take risks, against the increasing helplessness he feels for his child's well-being, and his own. With the observant eye of an artist and remarkable humor, Elisha writes about what it took for him and his wife to preserve a sense of normalcy and joy in their daughters' lives; how the family emerged from this experience profoundly changed, but healed and whole; how we are all transformed by the fear and hope we feel for those we love.
Table of contents: title: It; title: Fall; title: Scans; title: Art; title: Family; title: Waiting; title: Words; title: Table; title: Orchard; title: Cycling; title: Wild; title: Williamsburg; title: Remember; title: Laughter; title: Thanks; title: And.