Acknowledgments.
Part 1.
Sirens.
You’ll Have to Wait.
Grasping.
Part 2.
What’s in a Face.
The World Is Too Much.
Reciprocity.
The Brain Doesn’t Wait.
The Game.
The Body Is a Map.
Part 3.
The Questions That Haunted Us.
New Clues.
A Walk Around the Driveway.
The Epidemic.
Part 4.
Through a Door in the Wall.
A Challenge, a Game, a Vocation, a Sentence.
Begin with Desire.
Tyranny of Attention.
Partly Heard Song.
Words.
The Specter of Loss.
Ways to Make a Salad.
The Ladder.
To Paradise Pond.
Exotic Poisons, Unusual Connections.
Through Another Door in the Wall.
Part 5.
Imagining the World.
A Close Call.
Companions.
A Searchlight.
The Senses Revisited.
Part 6.
I Have a Prob’em.
Epiphany.
What Wrecks This World.
A Car Turning Off the Road.
Eyes of a Stranger.
The Fate of Babies and Pirates.
Epilogue.
About the Author.
Patricia Stacey is a former journalist for Atlantic Monthly. She is now a freelance writer and college teacher. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and son.
“… describes how a mother embraced the latest brain research and alternative therapies to help her son overcome autism…” (Young Minds, January 2004) “This is a remarkable and moving book… Stacey writes with an honesty and modesty that is wholly beguiling…” (Zero2Nineteen, March 2004) “…beautifully told story…” (Human Givens Journal, July 04)
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