Kelly Harland's book of essays about life with her son Will are enjoyable, and anyone who knows someone with autism will find it resonates with them. For me, this starred mediocrely not because of poor content or weak writing, but assembly. It still felt very much like a series of disconnected short anecdotes rather than a cohesive book. There seemed to be no effort made to make the book a unit. If I'd read these essays in a magazine or on a blog, this wouldn't be a problem, but in a book, I fou More...

The book is a series of randomized essays taken from the life of the Harland's and their son who has autism.

It is useless for a newly diagnosed parent because it gives no help on where to go and where to get services. It doesn't give any suggestions to make your child verbal. As she says "luckily her's is"... lucky yes.

As for a parent with a child with autism all it does is reaffirm that others have "been there, done that".

If you are simply More...