Falling: A Daughter, a Father, and a Journey Back

✍ Scribed by Cooper, Elisha

• Book ID: 108940975
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 439 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781101871232

✦ Synopsis

The award-winning children's book author confronts a new world when faced with his daughter's illness in this frank, moving, and beautiful memoir.

Elisha Cooper spends his mornings writing and illustrating children's books, his afternoons playing with his two daughters. The phrase he hates most is "throw like a girl," so he teaches them to climb trees and play ball. But when he discovers a lump in five-year-old Zoë's midsection as she sits on his lap at a Chicago Cubs game, everything changes. Surgery, sleepless nights, treatments, a drumbeat of worry. Even as the family moves to New York and Zoë starts kindergarten, they must navigate a new normal: school and soccer games and hot chocolates in cafés regularly interrupted by anxious visits to the hospital. And Elisha is forced to balance his desires to be a protective parent even as he encourages his girls to take risks, against the increasing helplessness he feels for his child's well-being, and his...