The Boy Who Loved Tornadoes (ePub)
A Mother's Story
(Sprache: Englisch)
"A heartbreaking, disturbing, and truly courageous story of one mother's fight to save her son" (Alice Hoffman, New York Times-bestselling author).
Randi Davenport's young son, Chase, kept having problems, but a diagnosis proved elusive. Some said it...
Randi Davenport's young son, Chase, kept having problems, but a diagnosis proved elusive. Some said it...
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"A heartbreaking, disturbing, and truly courageous story of one mother's fight to save her son" (Alice Hoffman, New York Times-bestselling author).
Randi Davenport's young son, Chase, kept having problems, but a diagnosis proved elusive. Some said it was autism, others, ADHD-but as time went by, the problems only increased. She worked hard to provide her family with a sense of stability and strength, but her husband's erratic behavior only made the situation worse.
Eventually, James Davenport slipped into his own world, leaving his wife and kids behind. At fifteen, Chase entered an unremitting psychosis-pursued by terrifying images, unable to recognize his own mother, unwilling to eat or even talk.
This is the heartbreaking yet triumphant story of how a single mother navigated the byzantine and broken health care system, and managed to not just save her son from the brink of suicide, but bring him back to her and make her family whole again. The Boy Who Loved Tornadoes is "an unforgettable memoir of a shattered family, a mother's abiding love, and the frightening permutations of the human mind" (Elle).
"A gripping and deeply compelling book about a mother's search for the proper care and treatment for her psychotic son. Davenport shows us the gritty and enraging reality of our long fractured mental health system . . . The best book I've read about mental illness since Kay Jamison's An Unquiet Mind." -Virginia Holman, author of Rescuing Patty Hearst: Growing Up Sane in a Decade Gone Mad
"A brave and beautiful story by a born writer . . .This book is like a beacon, offering clarity, inspiration, and validation for us all, especially those of us, like myself, who have struggled with serious mental illness in our families." -Lee Smith, author of Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger
Randi Davenport's young son, Chase, kept having problems, but a diagnosis proved elusive. Some said it was autism, others, ADHD-but as time went by, the problems only increased. She worked hard to provide her family with a sense of stability and strength, but her husband's erratic behavior only made the situation worse.
Eventually, James Davenport slipped into his own world, leaving his wife and kids behind. At fifteen, Chase entered an unremitting psychosis-pursued by terrifying images, unable to recognize his own mother, unwilling to eat or even talk.
This is the heartbreaking yet triumphant story of how a single mother navigated the byzantine and broken health care system, and managed to not just save her son from the brink of suicide, but bring him back to her and make her family whole again. The Boy Who Loved Tornadoes is "an unforgettable memoir of a shattered family, a mother's abiding love, and the frightening permutations of the human mind" (Elle).
"A gripping and deeply compelling book about a mother's search for the proper care and treatment for her psychotic son. Davenport shows us the gritty and enraging reality of our long fractured mental health system . . . The best book I've read about mental illness since Kay Jamison's An Unquiet Mind." -Virginia Holman, author of Rescuing Patty Hearst: Growing Up Sane in a Decade Gone Mad
"A brave and beautiful story by a born writer . . .This book is like a beacon, offering clarity, inspiration, and validation for us all, especially those of us, like myself, who have struggled with serious mental illness in our families." -Lee Smith, author of Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger
Autoren-Porträt von Randi Davenport
Randi Davenport is the author of The Boy Who Loved Tornadoes: A Mother's Story (Algonquin, 2010), a winner of the Great Lakes Colleges Association Prize for Creative Non-fiction and a finalist for a Books for a Better Life award. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in publications like The Huffington Post, The Washington Post, The Ontario Review and the Alaska Quarterly Review, among others. She studied history and creative writing at William Smith College, where she earned her B.A she later earned both an MA in Creative Writing/Fiction and a PhD in literature at Syracuse University, where she won the university-wide prize for best doctoral dissertation of the year. She has been a Summer Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a Public Fellow at the Institute for Arts and Humanities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and has taught literature and writing at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Duke University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, among others. She is currently the Executive Director of the James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Randi Davenport
- 2010, Englisch
- Verlag: Algonquin Books
- ISBN-10: 1616200030
- ISBN-13: 9781616200039
- Erscheinungsdatum: 30.03.2010
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“This is her gripping account of that unrelenting battle. It isn't a medical thriller that climaxes with an 11th-hour cure. The light of its happy ending burns low, but in this courageous mother's eyes it shines as bright as the sun.” —The Boston Globe
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