{"product_id":"9781628724295","title":"Love Is Not Enough: A Mother's Memoir of Autism, Madness, and Hope","description":"\u003cbr\u003eWhen Jenny Lexhed and her husband have their first child, Lucas, they are living the dream. They’re happily married, they’ve just bought a house, the company they built together from the ground up is starting to blossom. But with the arrival of their son, a feeling of anxiety slips into their life. What starts as a feeling becomes a conviction. Lucas is not like other children. Everything seems to indicate, and psychiatric evaluation concludes, that their son is severely autistic. Will he ever be able to communicate?\u003cp\u003eJenny vows to do whatever she can to help Lucas connect with his parents and others and live an independent life. Tossed between hope and despair, she begins a frantic effort to research the best among many competing therapies and find exactly the right treatment for her son. Her obsession takes her to the brink of exhaustion—and over, when she suffers a psychotic breakdown and must be committed to a psychiatric clinic. There begins another journey, to find her balance and recover her strong, healthy life, before she can begin again to fight for her son.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth brutally honest and deeply affecting, \u003ci\u003eLove Is Not Enough\u003c\/i\u003e is a page-turning memoir that offers insight into autism and what a parent goes through for her child.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arcade Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47031836737776,"sku":"9781628724295","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781628724295_p0.jpg?v=1763870173","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781628724295","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}