Raising Henry: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery by Adams, Rachel
Raising Henry: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery by Adams, Rachel

Raising Henry: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery

A mother's deeply moving account of raising a son with Down syndrome in a world crowded with...
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SKU: 9780300198911
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Author: Rachel Adams
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Raising Henry: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery by Adams, Rachel

Raising Henry: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery

€41,06
Raising Henry: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery by Adams, Rachel

Raising Henry: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery

€41,06
Author: Rachel Adams
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
A mother's deeply moving account of raising a son with Down syndrome in a world crowded with contradictory attitudes toward disabilities

Rachel Adams's life had always gone according to plan. She had an adoring husband, a beautiful two-year-old son, a sunny Manhattan apartment, and a position as a tenured professor at Columbia University. Everything changed with the birth of her second child, Henry. Just minutes after he was born, doctors told her that Henry had Down syndrome, and she knew that her life would never be the same. In this honest, self-critical, and surprisingly funny book, Adams chronicles the first three years of Henry's life and her own transformative experience of unexpectedly becoming the mother of a disabled child. A highly personal story of one family's encounter with disability, Raising Henry is also an insightful exploration of today's knotty terrain of social prejudice, disability policy, genetics, prenatal testing, medical training, and inclusive education. Adams untangles the contradictions of living in a society that is more enlightened and supportive of people with disabilities than ever before, yet is racing to perfect prenatal tests to prevent children like Henry from being born. Her book is gripping, beautifully written, and nearly impossible to put down. Once read, her family's story is impossible to forget.

Author: Rachel Adams
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 10/28/2014
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.12h x 5.01w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9780300198911

About the Author
Rachel Adams is professor of English and American studies at Columbia University, where she is also director of the Future of Disability Studies Project. She is the author of Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination. Adams lives with her husband and two sons in New York City.


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