Exiting Nirvana: A Daughter's Life with Autism
Author: Clara Claiborne Park
Reprising her own now classic work The Siege, which covered the early years of her autistic daughter's life, Clara Claiborne Park gives us a moving, eloquent portrait of Jessy as an autistic adult-still struggling with language, with hypersensitivities and obsessions, and with the social interactions that most of us take for granted, but at the same time achieving more than her parents could have hoped for, becoming an accomplished artist, and growing into an active member of her family and community.
Author Biography: Clara Claiborne Park is the author of several books, including The Siege: A Family's Journey into the World of an Autistic Child. She recently retired from the English Department at Williams College, and she lectures.
Genre: Non Fiction
