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Know the Night - 9781476702742

Un libro in lingua di Maria Mutch edito da Simon & Schuster, 2014

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This soul-stirring debut memoir explores the experience of isolation and the miraculous power of care and communication in its midst.

Unfolding over the witching hours between midnight and 6:00 a.m., this meditative book takes place during the two-year period in which the author’s son, Gabriel, who is autistic and also has Down Syndrome, did not sleep through the night. Told as interwoven memories, the book describes Gabriel’s childhood and Maria’s own entrance into the world of multiple disability parenting.

As a counterpoint to understanding the figurative isolation that keeps Gabriel apart, Maria offers the story of Admiral Richard Byrd, the polar explorer who journeyed alone into the Antarctic wilderness in the 1930s. His story creates a shared and powerful language for the experience of feeling alone.

In the three main characters—mother, son, adventuring explorer—Maria reveals overlapping and layered themes of solitude that enlighten and uplift one another.

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