FarFromtheTree_Parents,ChildrenandtheSea.epub

Thank you for purchasing this Scribner eBook. Join our mailing list and get updates on new releases, deals, bonus content and other great books from Scribner and Simon & Schuster. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP or visit us online to sign up at eBookNews.SimonandSchuster.com Contents I Son II Deaf III Dwarfs IV Down Syndrome V Autism VI Schizophrenia VII Disability VIII Prodigies IX Rape X Crime XI Transgender XII Father Acknowledgments About the Author Notes Bibliography Index for John, for the sake of whose difference I would gladly give up all the sameness in the world The imperfect is our paradise. Note that, in this bitterness, delight, Since the imperfect is so hot in us, Lies in flawed words and stubborn sounds. —Wallace Stevens, “The Poems of Our Climate” T I Son here is no such thing as reproduction. When two people decide to have a baby, they engage in an act of production, and the widespread use of the word reproduction for this activity, with its implication that two people are but braiding themselves together, is at best a euphemism to comfort prospective parents before they get in over their heads. In th......