Name: Falling
Author: Elisha Cooper
ISBN: 9781101871249

Published:

Jun-2016
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General Fiction
Pages:

161
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Elisha Cooper spends his mornings creating children's books and his afternoons playing with his two daughters. But when he discovers a lump in five-year-old ZoÃ«'s midsection as she sits on his lap at a Chicago Cubs game, everything changes. Surgery, sleepless nights, months of treatment, a drumbeat of worry. Even as the family moves to New York and ZoÃ« starts kindergarten, they must navigate a new normal: school and soccer and hot chocolate at the local cafÃ©, interrupted by anxious visits to the hospital. Elisha and his wife strive to help their daughters maintain a sense of stability and joy in their family life. And he tries to understand this new world -- how it changes art and language and laughter -- as he holds on to the protective love he feels for his child.

With the observant eye of an artist and a remarkable sense of humor, Elisha captures his family's journey through a perilous time and, in the process, shows how we are all transformed by the fear and hope we feel for those we love