Following Ezra: What One Father Learned About Gumby, Otters,

ISBN: 0451234634

Author: Fields-Meyer, Tom

Condition: new

A heartwarming, intimate, and amusing memoir of a fathers experience raising his autistic son.When Tom Fields-Meyers son Ezra was three and showing early signs of autism, a therapist suggested that the father needed to grieve.For what? Tom asked.The answer: For the child he didn't turn out to be.That moment helped strengthen the authors resolve to do just the opposite: to love the child Ezra was, a quirky boy with a fascinating and complex mind. Full of tender moments and unexpected humor, Following Ezra is the story of a father and son on a ten-year journey from Ezras diagnosis to the dawn of his adolescence. It celebrates his growth from a toddler to an extraordinary young man, connected in his own remarkable ways to the world around him. And through Ezras eyes, Tom-and, in turn, the reader-gains a new and beautiful understanding of the world.