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A remarkable memoir by a mother and her autistic daughter who'd long been unable to communicate--until a miraculous breakthrough revealed a young woman with a rich and creative interior life, a poet, who'd been trapped inside for more than two decades.

"Intelligent Love tells the story of a mother, Clara Park, and her autistic daughter Jessica, showing how they helped transform social and scientific views about what mothers and autistic people can do"--

"A fresh, hilarious, and relatable collection of essays about everything from motherhood and marriage to sobriety and work-life balance (or imbalance) from the nationally bestselling author of the "honest, complicated" (SheKnows) Idiot"--

Cuando Judith Newman relato la historia sobre la forma en que Siri, el asistente personal electronico de la Apple, le ayudo a Gus, su hijo autista, recibio una amplia atencion por parte de los medios, asi como el afecto de lectores del mundo entero. Disfrutando del resplandor que da la atencion de los medios, Gus le decia a todo el que lo quisiera escuchar: Soy una estrella del cine. La historia que relata Judith sobre su hijo y sus lazos con Siri...

"When Claire walked into a room, men paid attention. She was beautiful, she was blonde, and she dressed like a Kardashian. Then Claire met 'him.' And it's hard to see evil in a man who's so hot. How many hot men does it take to screw up a life? Just one. The Sad Son reads like tequila shots with a friend--it's straight up, a little salty, and contains an inconspicuous worm. This true story unravels how Claire went from partying with rock stars, hitting...