Love you to pieces : creative writers on raising a child with special needs / edited by Suzanne Kamata.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kamata, Suzanne, 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children with disabilities--Literary collections.

Children with disabilities.

Parents of children with disabilities--Literary collections.

Parents of children with disabilities.

Parent and child--Literary collections.

Parent and child.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Literature.

Physical Description:

xiii, 256 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Beacon Press, [2008]

Summary:

The first collection of literary writing on raising a child with special needs, Love You to Pieces features families coping with autism, deafness, muscular dystrophy, Down syndrome and more. Here, poets, memoirists, and fiction writers paint beautiful, wrenchingly honest portraits of caring for their children, laying bare the moments of rage, disappointment, and guilt that can color their relationships. Parent-child communication can be a challenge at the best of times, but in this collection we witness the struggles and triumphs of those who speak their own language-or don't speak at all-and those who love them deeply.

Contents:

Coming to Samsara / memoir by Vicki Forman 1

Without Strings / fiction by Hannah Holborn 9

SMA Baby / poem by Ellen Bihler 15

A Homecoming / fiction by Marcy Sheiner 17

"Severe Language Delay": In the Kitchen with My Three-Year-Old / poem by Rebecca Balcarcel 26

Magic Affinities / fiction by Evelyn Sharenov 28

Little Locomotive / poem by Gina Forberg 49

Normal / memoir by Marie Myung-Ok Lee 50

Form and Void / poem by Barbara Crooker 58

Doing Jigsaw Puzzles / poem by Barbara Crooker 60

The Lives of the Saints / fiction by Catherine Brady 62

Living with Lilia / memoir by Suzanne Kamata 80

Termite's Birthday, 1959 / fiction by Jayne Anne Phillips 88

Petit Mal / poem by Michele Battiste 105

Great Expectations / memoir by Michael Berube 107

From Spells and Auguries / poem by John Morgan 121

Speaking of Love/Reading My Son / memoir by Clare Dunsford 125

Ordinary Time / fiction by Carol Zapata-Whelan 136

Moonrise / memoir by Penny Wolfson 150

A Question of Leaves / poem by Carol Schmidt 177

From Jewel / fiction by Bret Lott 179

Doctor in the House / memoir by Darshan Perusek 189

Victoria's Wedding / poem by Margaret Mantle 194

Rachel at Work: Enclosed, a Mother's Report / memoir by Jane Bernstein 196

What about Meg? / fiction by Curtis Smith 217

Joyful Noise / fiction by Maggie Kast 229

The Heart Speaks / memoir by Sheila Kohler 238.

Notes:

Essays, poems, and short stories on parenting disabled children.

ISBN:

9780807000304

0807000302

OCLC:

173248949