About this title: Michael Dorris's heart-wrenching story of the effects of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome on his son Adam, a Native-American child Dorris adopted.
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780060916824ISBN:0060916826
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Some edge and corner wear. Previous owner's name inside. Tight, square book. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 320 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 1990-11-21
ISBN-13:9780060916824ISBN:0060916826
Description: Very Good. Clean copy with normal wear for condition. Spine condition is normal or better for the condition. May have book store stamp, price marking or former owner name. Clean copy with normal wear for condition. Spine condition is normal or better for the condition. May have book store stamp, price marking or former owner name. read more
"I learned a lot about Native American life and culture, as well as the devastating individual and social costs of fetal alchohol syndrome that stretch across lines of race and class."
"devastating (and heroic) account of one family's struggle with fetal alcohol syndrome, and an interesting look into contemporary native american struggles."
"I picked up this book at a summer cabin and read it in three days, which is a pleasure in and of itself -- getting to read a book straight-through from cover-to-cover. I really enjoyed it and learned a lot from it. I also am struck by how, 20 years after its publication and wide impact, people are still in immense denial about the impact of drinking while pregnant. The reactions I have gotten here amongst this group of vacationers to the idea that any drinking while pregnant is a bad idea astound me -- you'd think I was suggested they not eat! It gives me pause. There is still so much education to be done. I really enjoyed the book & am of course saddened by knowing how both "Adam" and Michael's lives would end. I wish I could inhabit, just for a month, a world entirely without alcohol, and see how things might feel dramatically different."
"I learned a lot from this book about the struggles of a parent with FAS or FAE. The expectations we put on our children can be pretty burdensome for both the children and the student. This book was very humble in its approach to some of the more complicated moral issues involved with FAS as well. I thought that Mr. Dorris spoke from the heart, but also shed some light onto the moral crossroads that confronts our society in the form of mothers who continue to have and abandon FAS children. Should this be a crime? Is it societies place to step in and revoke the freedom to limit the life of a child before they are given a chance to live? This book also spoke about how children with FAS think and process that allowed me to see this population in a new way. Some of my past tendancies were playing along with expectations for understanding with students that experience FAS that probably set myself and them up to experience failure. In the future, I hope to hear some of the warnings from this book before I fly off the handle and confront a student whose attention has drifted off without my presence by their side, or consider just a moment more just who I am angry at when I must reteach the same skill over and over to a student who doesn't seem to care or want the information I am offering them. "Abstract" thinking and projecting consequences for currently actions beyond the current scope is an integral skill that might not be something I can fathom living without. In any case, this was a good book that made me think about a lot of interesting things."
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