Expecting Adam

This lovely true story by Martha Beck is both spiritual and very, very human.

What happens when two Harvard graduate students, type-A, achievement-oriented control freaks find out that the child they are expecting has Down's syndrome? How do they cope? How does it change them?

The answers are amazing - not the least because their struggle is titanic. Martha is ill throughout her pregnancy. John is busily trying to handle research in Singapore with writing a doctoral dissertation in Cambridge. And both of them are dealing with family issues, the expectation of perfection, and doubt that bringing the child to term is in fact the right thing to do.

But something magical happens as they are expecting Adam.

Read this one with an open mind - for even if they are delusional people, the things they learned are valuable lessons for us all.
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Other books read since last entry - Wild Swans by Jung Chang.