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Raising Henry - A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery (Paperback)
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Raising Henry - A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery (Paperback)
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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.
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