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  Martha Beck - Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic

Martha Beck - Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic

Lynn E. Child and Susan G. Clendenin - New Frontiers in Dutch Oven Cooking

Lynn E. Child and Susan G. Clendenin - New Frontiers in Dutch Oven Cooking

 
Product Description This memoir tells the story about the author's experience mothering a Down Syndrome child.  
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Authors Martha Beck Lynn E. Child, Susan G. Clendenin
Nonfiction Category Biography & Autobiography • Medical • Social Science Cooking
Nonfiction Subcategory General • Gynecology & Obstetrics • Handicapped • Literary • Perinatology & Neonatology • Down Syndrome - Patients • Parents Of Children With Disabilities Methods / General
Professional Reviews   
Professional Reviews Kirkus: "Even skeptics will find magic in this story, and parents of a Down syndrome child will cherish it.", Cheever, Susan, New York Times Book Review: "EXPECTING ADAM is a glorious example [of a memoir]. Martha Beck is smart, willing to confide in the reader, good at concise description and very funny, particularly about the most serious possible subjects--childbirth, angels, and surviving at Harvard. Parts of this story are hard to believe--psychic experiences, glimpses of metaphysical beings--but Beck's voice is so sympathetic and most of her details so accurate that they frequently carry all before them." -
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Book Editions PaperbackReissueAugust 01, 2000Berkley Pub Group8.25"(h) x 5"(w) x 0.75"(d), 0.65 lbs.9780425174487 Paperback78May 01, 2009Horizon Pub & Dist Inc9"(h) x 7.75"(w) x 0.25"(d), 0.35 lbs.9780882909639
 
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A touching memoir about the tragic and miraculous

byebolles Mar 21, 2001
102 Helpfuls 103 Helpfuls Was this review helpful?
Pros Beautifully written, intelligent, honest voice, moving and funny, too.
Cons Lots of descriptions of being sick, a lot of (understandable) unresolved anger.
Recommended it? Yes

This is a beautiful book, both in what it says and how it says it. It is the true story of Martha Beck, who in 1987 discovered that she was pregnant with a child with Down syndrome, and the struggles and spiritual transformation she and her husband went through as they coped with this seemingly... Read full review »

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A Wonderful Memoir of Pregnancy, Puke and Possibilities

bywilleftk May 31, 2001
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Pros Honest, Intelligent, Humorous and Brutally Honest tale of a mother of a son with...
Cons Would love a sequel to know more about Adam
Recommended it? Yes

I was initially drawn to the book Expecting Adam for the simple fact that I have an older sister with Down syndrome. This was a book that I thought would be a simple memoir written by a dedicated mother of a special needs child. This book is so much more than that.

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