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The Year My Son And I Were Born: A Story Of Down Syndrome, Motherhood, And Self-Discovery (2009)

by Kathryn Lynard Soper(Favorite Author)

4.06 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0762750618 (ISBN13: 9780762750610)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

GPP Life

review 1: Hmmm. I have read many blog posts by this author and I find her so very insightful, honest, and interesting. I wanted to like this book more than I did. This book definitely helped create a shift in me regarding how we view success in our children, but found her attitude somewhat bothersome and I disagreed with some of the decisions she made. I enjoyed the first part of the book more than the second.
review 2: I'm guessing Ms. Soper intentionally wrote her bitter, nasty, fatalist last line into each chapter on purpose, but I did find it a bit too much after a while. Despite this one complaint I was keenly interested in the story she told of her own coming to terms with her seventh child having Trisomy 21, or Down's Syndrome. Yes, she was honest. She exce... morelled at painting the picture of her psyche, her chaotic home, her prison bedroom, her cold marriage, her terrible plummet into an inability to cope with even the smallest effort in her life. And she wrote of her recovery equally well. A slow realization into the truth of her situation, and a rapid ascent into healing. Postpartum depression is an ugly beast by itself, but snarling on the heels of coping with the reality of a disabled child would throw me into a state I don't like to think of.This being a true story, and the child being a real little boy, I am grateful to know that Soper found the place she needed to be to enjoy the life they share. less

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