{"product_id":"9780316075299","title":"Exiting Nirvana: A Daughter's Life with Autism","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ege \u003c\/i\u003e“pro\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003evides readers with what is perhaps . . . the finest exposition of a parent’s decades-long experience with a child with autism” (Jeffrey L. Geller, MD, MPH, \u003ci\u003ePsychiatric Services\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eExiting Nirvana\u003c\/i\u003e details Clara Claiborne Park’s continuing efforts to have her adult daughter Jessy develop as an artist and connect with our world. “Park has been both mother and anthropologist, recording verbal and social breakthroughs and setbacks, administering praise and succor. She describes the serene insularity of the autist’s ‘Nirvana,’ and observes collisions between the autistic and external worlds. She’s urged Jessy to enter, ‘yet never entirely,’ the extraordinary dailiness inhabited by nonautistic people. In incisive, often exquisite prose, Park affords entry into Jessy’s and her own remarkable journey between the two” (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Beautifully written . . . a fascinating excursion into an otherworldly mind.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Park’s second book on her daughter Jessy (the first appeared in 1967, when Jessy was eight) is a perceptive, detailed, and empathetic account not of autism but of the experience of autism . . . A warm, levelheaded, neither overly optimistic nor overly glorified book that proves very rewarding.”—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “This beautifully crafted portrait of an autistic adult artist includes color reproductions of Jessy’s paintings, with descriptions in her own handwriting.”—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “This beautifully written book is must-reading—and not only for those seeking an understanding of autism.”—Bernard Rimland, Director, The Autism Research Institute","brand":"Little, Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47117593608432,"sku":"9780316075299","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780316075299_p0.jpg?v=1769888685","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780316075299","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}