In 2009 Cristina Nehring\'s brilliant first book, A Vindication of Love , was featured on the cover of the New York Times Book Review . -Christina Hoff Sommers, Senior Fellow Emeritus, American Enterprise Institute; author of The War on Boys. -James Wolcott, author of the memoir Lucking Out and the essay collection Critical Mass
One of the most graceful, tender and wise books I have ever read.
It\'s like hearing from a cherished friend after way too long.
And the writing! So elegant and intimate.
It is a love story, an adventure tale, an impetuous travelog, and a suspenseful medical saga (you can almost hear the hospital beeps in the background, the shuffle of footsteps down the halls) borne along by Nehring\'s buoyant breadth of spirit and the unbreakable bond with her daughter Eurydice.
But The Child Who Never Spoke: 231/2 Lessons in Fragility is more than a guidebook to the uses and unexpected gifts of adversity. -Katie Roiphe author of In Praise of Messy Lives and editor of Janet Malcolm: The Last Interview and Other Conversations Yes, there are hard-won Lessons to be wrung from Cristina Nehring\'s ongoing odyssey as the single mother of a Down syndrome Child and spun into lyric wisdom.
Nehring has a lot to teach the rest of us about finding adventure and joy during times of...crisis. -Dana Gioia, California poet laureate and author of Can Poetry Matter? A colorful, harrowing, engrossing account of mothering in extremis by one of the world\'s last bohemians and true free spirits.
Although it tells a story full of sorrow, The Child Who Never Spoke is a not a sad book but a profound and joyous testament to the love between a mother and daughter.
Forthright, profound, and passionate, this new book is also a vindication of love.
These \'Lessons in fragility\' tell of Nehring\'s unexpected pregnancy and birth of a \'special child, \' a baby girl with Down syndrome in its most extreme form.
Now unexpectedly from Paris comes a heartbreaking and tender memoir, The Child Who Never Spoke , that explains her years of silence.
Just as suddenly, Nehring seemed to disappear-only to reemerge like a bolt from the blue.
An important new voice had appeared in American letters.
In 2009 Cristina Nehring\'s brilliant first book, A Vindication of Love , was featured on the cover of the New York Times Book Review
