Synopses & Reviews
In 1997, writer Patricia Stacey and her husband, Cliff, learned that their six-month-old son, Walker, might never walk or talk, or even hear or see. Unwilling to accept this grim prognosis, they embarked on a five-year odyssey that took them into alternative medicine and the newest brain research and toward a new and innovative understanding of autism. Finally their search brought them to pioneering developmental psychiatrist Stanley Greenspan, who helped them save their son and bring him into full contact with the world.
This enthralling memoir, at once heart-wrenching and hopeful, takes the reader into the life of one remarkable family willing to do anything to give their son a rich and emotionally full life. We follow as they struggle to elicit the first sign that their son is connecting with them, and share in their fears, struggles, tiny victories, and eventual triumphs.
The Boy Who Loved Windows is not only a compelling and inspiring story for parents and professionals who care for children with autism and other special needs, but also a stunning literary debut. It will captivate anyone who cares about the lives of children and the passion of families who put them first against huge odds.
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"Some readers will want less personal and medico-historical detail and fewer in-depth treatments of the various therapies and sessions, but Stacey keeps the focus on her own understanding, which ultimately sustains the book." Publishers Weekly
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"If you or anyone who know has a child with autism, you won't want to miss reading The Boy Who Loved Windows." Newsday
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"I'd be shocked if The Boy Who Loved Windows doesn't win a stack of major writing awards....[An] altogether compelling story." Marietta Times
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"Riveting....A gripping, unsentimental narrative of a family struggling to keep intact in the face of financial pressures, time constraints, and humbled pride....Compelling." Oprah Magazine
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"Anyone who has a connection with autism and sensory disorders will want to read and re-read this book." Curled Up With a Good Book
Synopsis
A first-person account of one mother's battle to save her child from autism.
Synopsis
The suspenseful and beautifully told story of a child with a serious neurological disorder and the amazing treatments that led, almost literally, to his rebirth
About the Author
Patricia Stacey, a writer, college teacher, and former staff member of the Atlantic Monthly, lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Table of Contents
Sirens -- You'll have to wait -- Grasping -- What's in a face -- The world is too much -- Reciprocity -- The brain doesn't wait -- The game -- The body is a map -- The questions that haunted us -- More clues -- A walk around the driveway -- The epidemic -- Through a door in the wall -- A challenge, a game, a vocation, a sentence -- Begin with desire -- Tyranny of attention -- Partly heard song -- Words -- The specter of loss -- Ways to make a salad -- The ladder -- To paradise pond -- Exotic poisons, unusual connections -- Through another door in the wall -- Imagining the world -- A close call -- Companions -- A search light -- The senses revisited -- I have a prob'em -- Epiphany -- What wrecks this world -- A car turning off the road -- Eyes of a stranger -- The fate of babies and pirates.