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Exiting NirvanaA Daughter's Life with Autism
Format: Hardback
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In her much-acclaimed book The Siege, Clara Claiborne Park described theirst eight years of her autistic daughter's life. Now she brings the storyight up to date in Exiting Nirvana, a moving and eloquent memoir of Jessy'sdolescence and adulthood. Now in her early forties, Jessy Park stilltruggles with language, with hypersensitivities and obsessions, and with theocial interactions that ordinary people take for granted but that she cannotnderstand. With the help of family, friends and teachers, she has achieveduch more than her parents could possibly have hoped for. Her fascinationith mathematics has been channelled into balancing her chequebook andalculating her share of the grocery bill. And she has developed into anccomplished artist, mixing her own colours to create astonishing paintingshat transfigure the ordinary world into a magical rainbow universe; some ofessy's paintings are reproduced in the colour plate section. Perhaps mostmportantly, she has overcome her social difficulties sufficiently to holdown a job, becoming an active contributing member of her family and
Genre: Biography & memoir, Women
Format: Hardback
Published: 2001
Pages: 225
Publisher: Aurum
ISBN: 9781854108067
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Our conditions mean the following:
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- Very Good - only minor imperfections such as minor scuffs to edge or cover or a price written in pencil or shop sticker.
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