All I Can Handle: I'm No Mother Teresa: A Life Raising Three Daughters with Autism
How one woman raises three autistic daughters, loses one at Disney world, stays married, has sex, bakes gluten-free, goes broke, and keeps her sense of humor . . .Dr. Spock? Check. Penelope Ann Leach (Remember her?) Check. What to Expect When You’re Expecting? Check. I had a seven hundred dollar...
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How one woman raises three autistic daughters, loses one at Disney world, stays married, has sex, bakes gluten-free, goes broke, and keeps her sense of humor . . .Dr. Spock? Check. Penelope Ann Leach (Remember her?) Check. What to Expect When You’re Expecting? Check. I had a seven hundred dollar Bellini crib for God’s sake! Everything was perfect…”...and so begins Kim Stagliano’s electrifying and hilarious memoir of her family’s journey raising three daughters with autism. Always outspoken, often touching, and sometimes heartbreaking, Kim Stagliano is a powerful new voice in comedic writing—her “Kimoir” (as she calls it) is the next must-read within the autism community and the literary world at large. 24 full-color photographs
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781616084592 (1616084596)
Publish date: October 1st 2011
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
I liked this better than I thought I would. Stagliano is brash, breezy and not the least bit maudlin. I was very interested to look through the window of this book into her life, and I am quite certain it's a life I could not have handled. I don't know that she and I would be buddies IRL, I don't th...