A Slant of Sun

Once again, I accidentally found this book while looking in the library for something else.  I am always up for reading a memoir or any kind of book about disabilities and when the two are combined, I can't pass it up.  This was a story, written by a mother, about the journey of her son who was given a diagnosis on the autism spectrum.

I have never read a memoir about this subject that was so exquisitely beautiful and vulnerable.  I've worked with many parents of kids on the autism spectrum and even worked in their homes and gotten to know them fairly well.  But to see into the emotions and particularly the relationship of love between a son and a mother alternately squeezed my heart with joy and grief.  And did I mention the writing was exquisite?  Like poetry in prose.