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Next Stop: A Memoir

By Glen Finland

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Year
2012
ISBN
9781101577004
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1120136 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-10-01 06:10:02
BIO026000Biography & AutobiographyFAM012000Family & RelationshipsNonfictionPSY022020Psychology

Description

The summer David Finland was twenty-one years old, he and his mother, Glen, navigated the Washington, D.C., Metro trains. Every day. David has autism, and the hope was that if he could learn the train lines, maybe he could get a job. And if he could get a job, then maybe he could move out on his own. And maybe his parents’ marriage could get the jump start it so desperately needed. Maybe. A candid portrait of a differently abled young man poised at the entry to adulthood, Next Stop recounts the complex relationship between a child with autism and his family as he steps out into the real world alone for the first time. This personal narrative of a mother’s perpetually tested hope is a universal story of how our children grow up and how we learn to let go and reclaim our lives, no matter how hard that may be.

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