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C.P. Harris
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Fiction
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2021
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English
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The boy who loved tornadoes: a mother's story
โ Scribed by Davenport, Randi
- Publisher
- Workman Publishing; Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 198 KB
- Series
- Popular fiction & nonfiction anthology; NC LIVE module
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Chapel Hill, N.C.
- ISBN
- 1616200030
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
"A heartbreaking, disturbing, and truly courageous story of one mother's fight to save her son" (Alice Hoffman,New York Times -bestselling author).
Randi Davenport's young son, Chase, kept having problems, but a diagnosis proved elusive. Some said it was autism, others, ADHD--but as time went by, the problems only increased. She worked hard to provide her family with a sense of stability and strength, but her husband's erratic behavior only made the situation worse.
Eventually, James Davenport slipped into his own world, leaving his wife and kids behind. At fifteen, Chase entered an unremitting psychosis--pursued by terrifying images, unable to recognize his own mother, unwilling to eat or even talk.
This is the heartbreaking yet triumphant story of how a single mother navigated the byzantine and broken health care system, and managed to not just save her son from the brink of suicide, but bring him back to...
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General
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