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Randi Davenport's story is a testament to human fortitude, to hope, and to a mother's uncompromising love for her children.
She had always worked hard to provide her family with a sense of stability and strength, despite the challenges of having a son with autism and a husband whose erratic behavior sometimes puzzled and confused her.
But eventually, Randi's husband slipped into his own world and permanently out of her family's. And at fifteen, her son Chase entered an unremitting psychosis—pursued by terrifying images, unable to recognize his own mother, unwilling to eat or even talk—becoming ever more tortured and unreachable.
Beautifully written and profoundly moving, this is the heartbreaking yet triumphant story of how Randi Davenport navigated the byzantine and broken health care system and managed not just to save her son from the brink of suicide but to bring him back to her again, and make her family whole. In The Boy Who Loved Tornadoes, she gives voice to the experiences of countless families whose struggles with mental illness are likewise invisible to the larger world.
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Regan Daws
reviewed The Boy Who Loved Tornadoes on August 05, 2010
The Boy Who Loved Tornadoes
While sympathetic to the story, this book left me wanting . . . less. It was too long and too rambling. The main story, about Chase, sadly never goes anywhere until the epilogue. Story with husband ' dangling loose ends. Story about younger sister . . . well who knows, I starting skipping those digressions. Written by someone who teaches creative writing, so I kept looking for the great sentences and stellar writing. Well, the last sentence stands out. The rest is just okay. I guess she deserves credit for moving this story along in a serviceable manner, but overall too long. Also, her own personal story was oddly missing. I read lots of memoirs, and lots of autism memoirs, and lots of family mental illness memoirs, and this one does not stand out. Sorry.
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