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Exiting Nirvana: A Daughter's Life with Autism
Exiting Nirvana A Daughter's Life with Autism Author:Clara Claiborne Park Clara Claiborne Park's continuing efforts to have her adult daughter Jessy develop as an artist and connect with our world — “Park has been both mother and anthropologist, recording verbal and social breakthroughs and setbacks, administering praise and succor. She describes the serene insularity of the autist's ‘Nirva... more »na,’ and observes collisions between the autistic and external worlds. She's urged Jessy to enter, 'yet never entirely,' the extraordinary dailiness inhabited by nonautistic people. In incisive, often exquisite prose, Park affords entry into Jessy's and her own remarkable journey between the two” (Publishers Weekly).« less