Synopses & Reviews
What happens when you have life on a string--Yale law degree, wonderful husband, excellent health, and perfect first child--and then everything changes? The baby starts crossing her eyes. Her crying at night can't be soothed. She stops saying words, stops crawling, and sits wringing her hands all day. Hospital visits and doctors give no answers. The baby slips away to a place her parents can't reach. Susan Zimmermann tells the story of life with her daughter, Katherine, who developed normally until she was more than a year old, then developed Rett Syndrome without warning. Zimmermann writes of her experience with honesty and candor, but goes beyond that to describe the odyssey she and her husband undertook to embrace, and eventually accept, their family's altered life. This story of family dynamics and personal transformation reminds us that itt isn't what happens to us that shapes our humanity, but how we respond. Keeping Katherine is a soul-searching journey through grief, loss, hope, anger, and despair to a place of unconditional love.
About the Author
Susan Zimmermann lives in Colorado with her husband and four children. She is the author of Writing to Heal the Soul and a coauthor of The 7 Keys to Comprehension and The Mosaic of Thought.