Falling : a daughter, a father, and a journey back / Elisha Cooper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooper, Elisha, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooper, Elisha.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Fathers and daughters.

United States.

Illustrators--United States--Biography.

Illustrators.

Fathers and daughters--United States--Biography.

Cancer--Patients--Biography.

Cancer.

Cancer--Patients.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 146 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Pantheon Books [2016]

Summary:

"The award-winning children's book author confronts a new world when faced with his daughter's illness in this frank, moving, and beautiful memoir. 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

It

Fall

Scans

Art

Family

Waiting

Words

Table

Orchard

Cycling

Wild

Williamsburg

Remember

Laughter

Thanks

And.

ISBN:

9781101871232

1101871237

OCLC:

926061536

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