New Book "Reasonable People" reviewed in Newsweek!

In a post I wrote back in January called Calling All Book Loving Bloggers, I mentioned a book due out this spring called Reasonable People, a Memoir of Autism & Adoption by Ralph James Savarese.  Well, not only is it now available, it’s been reviewed in NEWSWEEK Magazine!  Congratulations Ralph!!!

Steve I know felt honored when asked to write a blurb about it for the book’s dust jacket.  Here is what he said:

"Reasonable People is the story of a homemade disability rights movement, one that defies many contemporary institutional and social service expectations about autistic children.  This is also a book with a historian’s care for facts and a poet’s concern with emotional candor.  It belongs on the shelf with the best work in disability history and memoir."

I’m hoping Steve will find time soon to write more for us…

Here is what Morton Ann Gernsbacher, Ph.D. had to say about it:

"Articulate and passionate, Savarese’s intricately crafted memoir of his son’s early years challenges all of us to embrace diversity, to triumph over adversity, and to become not just reasonable people – but a reasonable society."

Here are a few blogs discussing it as well:

Autism Vox;
The Joy of Autism
Autism Society of North Carolina Bookstore

Again – Congratulations to Ralph.  And to DJ, Ralph’s son.  DJ contributed his own chapter called "It’s My Story!"    DJ, thanks for sharing….

~ Connie