Where is peace and wisdom when
your heart is breaking for your
child? Where is understanding?
Perhaps, just perhaps, there is
something, some kind of reassurance
in the quiet moments of
reading romantic poetry and literature.
In her new book, Priscilla Gilman, an author,
professor, and mother, gives readers a beautifully
written story about her struggle to understand her
baby boy’s eccentric behaviors. Her son is unresponsive.
He doesn’t understand. Does Benjamin
know she loves him? Will he ever know? She seeks
to connect with him in the most loving way – to
hold him and accept his differences, to fight for his
life to be as normal as possible. Their story is woven
deeply with the happiest of family memories, and
yet, again and again, it is battered with crushing
waves of painful, heart-wrenching realization. She
doesn’t know how to help her son with his rare
prognosis, but her journey is a guide through chaos
and dysfunction as she tries to live in uncertainty,
to not worry, and to know that everything will be
okay. –- Lisa M
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