The shape of the eye
Subtitle: a memoir
By: George Estreich
Edition: Tarcher/Penguin trade paperback edition.
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780399163340
Subjects: Families; Family; Stay-at-home fathers; Down syndrome; American Authors; Patients; Children with disabilities; Family relationships; Parents of children with disabilities; Biography
Description: The author discusses the raising of his daughter, Laura Estreich, with Down syndrome.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-314).
Table of contents: title: Arrival; title: A child first; title: Fault line; title: Border; title: This is eating; title: Echo; title: In the ICU; title: Medicine is communication; title: The mayor of Hidden Valley; title: At home; title: A complex sweetness; title: Writers and families; title: The labyrinth of normal; title: Tragedy and expectation; title: John Langdon Down; title: Engineering; title: Increments and fates; title: Tokyo, 1945.