Falling : a daughter, a father, and a journey back
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Author
Published
New York : Pantheon, [2016].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9781101871232, 1101871237
Physical Desc
viii, 146 pages ; 21 cm
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Published
New York : Pantheon, [2016].
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9781101871232, 1101871237
Notes
Description
"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 Zoe'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 Zoe starts kindergarten, they must navigate a new normal: school and soccer games and hot chocolates in cafes 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 own. With the observant eye of an artist and remarkable humor, Elisha writes about what it took for him and his wife to preserve a sense of normalcy and joy in their daughters' lives; how the family emerged from this experience profoundly changed, but healed and whole; how we are all transformed by the fear and hope we feel for those we love"--,Provided by publisher.
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Bernards Township Library - Adult Nonfiction | 818.603 COOPER COO | Available |
Chatham Borough-Chatham Township Library - Adult Nonfiction | 818.603 COO | Available |
Pequannock Library - Adult Nonfiction | 306.87 COO | Available |
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Cooper, E. (2016). Falling: a daughter, a father, and a journey back (First edition.). Pantheon.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Cooper, Elisha. 2016. Falling: A Daughter, a Father, and a Journey Back. Pantheon.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Cooper, Elisha. Falling: A Daughter, a Father, and a Journey Back Pantheon, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Cooper, Elisha. Falling: A Daughter, a Father, and a Journey Back First edition., Pantheon, 2016.
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