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

by Rachel Adams

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300180004
• ISBN13: 9780300180008
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.4"