Exiting nirvana : a daughter's life with autism / Clara Claiborne Park ; foreword by Oliver Sacks.

Exiting nirvana : a daughter's life with autism / Clara Claiborne Park ; foreword by Oliver Sacks.

By
Park, Clara Claiborne.

Publication Date
2001

Publication Information
Boston, Mass. : Little, Brown,

Physical Description
225 p. : ill.

Subject Term
Autism -- Patients -- Biography.
 
Autistic children -- Family relationships.

Summary
Reprising her own now classic work The Siege, which covered the early years of her autistic daughter's life, Clara Claiborne Park gives us a moving, eloquent portrait of Jessy as an autistic adult -- still struggling with language, with hypersensitivities and obsessions, and with the social interactions that most of us take for granted, but at the same time achieving more than her parents could have hoped for, becoming an accomplished artist, and growing into an active member of her family and community.

Language
English

ISBN
9780316691178


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