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Author:

Estreich, George.

Title:

The shape of the eye : Down syndrome, family, and the stories we inherit / George Estreich ; afterword by Marcia Day Childress.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Southern Methodist University Press

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

xiii, 284 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Estreich, Laura Regina.
Estreich, George--Family.
Down syndrome--Patients--Biography.
Down syndrome--Family relationships.--Family relationships.
Parents of children with disabilities--Biography.
Children with disabilities--Biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Arrival -- A child first -- Faultline -- Border -- This is eating -- Echo -- In the ICU -- Medicine is communication -- The mayor of Hidden Valley -- At home -- A complex sweetness -- Writers and families -- The labyrinth of normal -- Tragedy and expectation -- John Langdon Down -- Engineering -- Increments and fates -- Tokyo, 1945.

Summary:

Writer George Estreich describes how raising a child with Down syndrome impacted everything else in his life, including his approach to writing and the way he now perceives other events in his own life and in the lives of his family members.

Series:

Medical humanities
Medical humanities

ISBN:

0870745670 : :
9780870745676 : :

LCCN:

2010043450

Locations:

EBPE325 -- Estherville Public Library (Estherville)

DTPD413 -- Garner Public Library (Garner)