Moonrise: One Family, Genetic Identity, and Muscular Dystrophy - Softcover

Wolfson, Penny

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9780312289072: Moonrise: One Family, Genetic Identity, and Muscular Dystrophy

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ISBN 10: 0312289073 ISBN 13: 9780312289072

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, 2004

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In this riveting and thought-provoking memoir about her family, her son Ansel, and his progressive disability, Penny Wolfson embarks on a quest that explores special education, giftedness, prenatal testing, and the genes she shares with her mother, sisters, and son. While Moonrise is an eloquent narrative of one family, it also asks profound questions about our genetic selves.

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"Ansel and his mother may be two of the bravest people I've ever heard of. And I would never have heard of him were it not for a writer who chose to turn the tragic and the personal into something of universal value."
- Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm

"Wolfson has written a kind of timeless tale---a mother's fierce determination, her struggle for her clearly gifted, special son. This is not a sad book, but a courageous one. And these are ancient themes crafted in a work of literature by a writer who has mastered her voice and given us not just a narrative, but a woven fabric of life."
- Mary Morris, author of Nothing to Declare and Acts of God

"Wolfson doesn't crown herself a hero in the face of Ansel's disease . . . she is truthful, courageous, tenacious, and whip-smart; she is her son's greatest advocate and a narrator to trust and admire."
- PW Daily, Book of the Day

"With this book Penny Wolfson shows herself to be deeply human in every conceivable sense, except one: she writes like an angel."
- Lawrence Weschler, author of Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder

About the Author:

Penny Wolfson won a National Magazine Award for the essay on which Moonrise is based. Her work has been published in The New York Times, the Atlantic Monthly, and Good Housekeeping, and was included in Best American Essays 2002.

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