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Mobile, Alabama, 1986. A fourteen-year-old girl is awakened by the
unmistakable sound of gunfire. On the front lawn, her father has
shot and killed her mother before turning the gun on himself.
Allison Moorer would grow up to be an award-winning musician, with
her songs likened to "a Southern accent: eight miles an hour,
deliberate, and very dangerous to underestimate" (Rolling Stone).
But that moment, which forever altered her own life and that of her
older sister, Shelby, has never been far from her thoughts. Now, in
her journey to understand the unthinkable, to parse the unknowable,
Allison uses her lyrical storytelling powers to lay bare the
memories and impressions that make a family, and that tear a family
apart. Blood delves into the meaning of inheritance and destiny,
shame and trauma -- and how it is possible to carve out a safe
place in the world despite it all. With a foreword by Allison's
sister, Grammy winner Shelby Lynne, Blood reads like an intimate
journal: vivid, haunting, and ultimately life-affirming.
Shortly before his second birthday, Allison Moorer's son, John
Henry, stopped using the twenty-seven words he had learned. John
Henry's diagnosis of nonverbal autism was devastating, even though
Allison knew in her bones that something was shifting. In the years
since then, Allison and John Henry have embarked on a powerful
journey-filled with the heartbreak, adventure, confusion, and
unending love that are the hallmarks of a quest for understanding.
In I Dream He Talks to Me, Allison details the temper tantrums, the
toilet accidents, the moments of unexpected grace, and the pain of
never truly knowing her son's hopes, fears, or what he loves with
the same gorgeous prose that is a hallmark of her first memoir,
Blood. I Dream He Talks to Me is an exploration of resilience,
compassion, and how to find things to celebrate every day. A moving
meditation on communication-what words mean, what they don't, and
how we strive to do the best for those care for-it is also a
surprising look at what unconditional love truly means. The saying
goes, "If you know one person with autism, you know one person with
autism." No two stories are alike, and yet there are universal
truths. As with Blood, Allison shares her unique story while also
creating a riveting narrative that will appeal to anyone who has
struggled to parent.
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