Reasonable People A Memoir of Autism and Adoption

Name: Reasonable People A Memoir of Autism and Adoption
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ISBN: 9781590511299

ISBN-10: 1590511298

ISBN-13: 9781590511299

Edition: 2007 (Annotated)

Authors: Ralph James Savarese

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A testament to uncommon devotion and common possibilities. "Why would someone adopt a badly abused, nonspeaking, six-year-old from foster care?" So the author was asked at the outset of his adoption-as-a-first-resort adventure. Part love story, part political manifesto about "living with conviction in a cynical time," the memoir traces the development of DJ, a boy written off as profoundly retarded and now, six years later, earning all "A's" at a regular school. Neither a typical saga of autism nor simply a challenge to expert opinion, "Reasonable People" illuminates the belated emergence of a self in language. And it does so using DJ's own words, expressed through the once discredited but…

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List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Publication date: 5/17/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 496
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.45" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English



Introduction: Some Get Eaten


Part I



Severe and Profound



More



Have You Tried In Vitro? or What's in a Name?



He's So Fine



Guidance



Read the Book



Poking



Have You Missed Living with Me?






Try to Remember My Life



Buttoned-up Shirts



Throw Dad Away



Charlie Needs Our Help



The Sad Hurt Great Brother



Grief Isn't Easy



Reasonable People



It's My Story!


Notes


Acknowledgments


About the Author