I know. You know my answer to the question already. But the purpose of this post is to point you to Emily Colson’s new book, Dancing with Max. I have a review of it in this month’s Christianity Today magazine: “A Gifting Child.” Although the review is written with a Christian audience in mind, I commend this book to anyone who is interested in a memoir about raising a child with autism. She’s honest about her faith, but she doesn’t impose it upon her reader in any way.
The review begins:
Early on in Emily Colson’s memoir about raising her son–Dancing with Max: A Mother and Son Who Broke Free (Zondervan)–she writes, “Max is not a burden; he is my greatest gift.” This autistic child, who cried most hours of the day as an infant, had long tantrums as a boy, and now has trouble forming words as a young man–surely this child is a burden. But he’s not. Max, now 19, is a gift, not only according to his mother but to all of us who are invited into his story.
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