Strange Son is the powerful tale of two mothers from opposite sides of the world who, united by their fierce determination to help their severely autistic sons, have challenged everything we thought we knew about autism. Tito Mukhopadhyay, an autistic boy from India who spends most of his time flapping his fingers in front of his eyes, has an IQ of 185. He favors the writings of Wordsworth and Ibsen. He loves philosophy, reads People, and worries about conflict in the Middle East. He also writes beautiful poetry.That Tito can communicate at all is due to his mother, Soma, who single-handedly developed a revolutionary method of teaching him in their one-room apartment in Bangalore, a "classroom" that lacked even running water. Iversen weaves the twin stories of Soma and Tito (and how Soma's methods mystified experts) together with her own story of how she and her family came to understand Dov. The result is a book suffused with uplifting human drama.
Divided We Fall When Kat McDonald reads the morning headlines about a furniture giants bankruptcy, she is overcome with deeply buried grievances. Kat is a Campbell by rights, but a McDonald by choice. She already resents her place as the unacknowledged daughter of the wealthy Campbell family, but in the wake of the bankruptcy, Kat suddenly finds herself drawn into the Campbell familys web of secrecy and lies. Only time will tell if she can reconcile her feelings before it is too late. Judge Not Disillusioned after losing her job as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune, Nikki Ragazzi returns to her hometown to regroup, taking a job as a sales clerk in her mothers gift shop. But when Nikkis father and grandfather broker a land deal between a politician and a mall development company, tempers flare. After Nikki writes an article about the property sale, she is suddenly drawn into the unsettling controversy. To top it off, now she must deal with Annie Mae Bailey, a demanding ninety-year-old woman who has hired her to coauthor her memoir. Divided We Fall/Judge Not shares two novellas that take a compelling glimpse into the lives of everyday characters who must learn to heal from the past before each can embrace the future.
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