All I Can Handle: I'm No Mother Teresa: A Life Raising Three Daughters with Autism

Hardback

Main Details

Title All I Can Handle: I'm No Mother Teresa: A Life Raising Three Daughters with Autism
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Kim Stagliano Rossi
Foreword by Jenny McCarthy
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:208
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreReligion and beliefs
Coping with illness
ISBN/Barcode 9781616080693
ClassificationsDewey:B
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Skyhorse Publishing
Imprint Skyhorse Publishing
Publication Date 18 November 2010
Publication Country United States

Description

"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! I was perfect. And so was Mia when she was born . . ." ...and so begins Kim Stagliano's electrifying and hilarious memoir of her family's journey raising three daughters with autism. In these stories, Stagliano has joined the ranks of David Sedaris and Augusten Burroughs with her amazing ability to lay everything on the table-from family, friends, and enemies to basement floods to birthdays to (possible) heroin addictions-eviscerating and celebrating the absurd. From her love of Howard Stern to her increasing activism in the autism community and exhaustive search for treatments that will help her daughters, she covers it all. Always outspoken, often touching, and sometimes heartbreaking, Kim Stagliano is a powerful new voice in comedic writing-her "Kimoir" (as she calls it) will be a must-read within the autism community and the literary world at large.

Reviews

Inspiring. Laugh out loud funny!