How one woman raises three daughters with autism. loses one at Disney World, stays married, has sex, bakes gluten-free, goes broke and keeps her sense of humor: "Dr Spock? Check. What To Expect When you're expecting? Check. I had a seven hundred dollar crib for God's sake! I was perfect. And so was Mia when she was born..."
and so begins Kim Stagliano's electrifiying and hilarious journey of her family's journey with autism. In these stories Kim Stagliano has joined the ranks of David Sedaris and Augusten Burroughs with her amazing ability to lay everything on the table and celebrate the absurd- from family, friends and enemies, to basement floods, birthdays and (possible) heroin addictions. From her love of controversial talk-back radio to her increasing activism in the autism community and her exhaustive search for treatments that will help her daughters, Kim covers it all.
