The Anti-Romantic ChildThe Anti Romantic Child is remarkable. This haunting and lyrical memoir will be an invaluable and heartening guide to all who find themselves in similar situations and indeed anyone confronting an unforeseen challenge.Marie Brenner, writer for Vanity Fair and author of Apples and Oranges With an emotionally resonant combination of memoir and literature, Wordsworth scholar Priscilla Gilman recounts the challenges of raising a son with hyperlexia, a

With every threat stacked against them

she must venture into the dark world beneath the City of Lights

She knows her Watson can’t forgive her

she has to make a decision: follow through her with plan or give it all up for true love

who is now a palace guard watching her from the shadows

and a wholly singular vision of contemporary womanhood from a terrifying and often funny voice of a new generation

Intimate and epic

the only way he can get his daughters back is to steal them away in the night

A natural raconteur

For the existence of mental force offers convincing scientific evidence of human free will

and the timeless goal of earning your very first bike

which happened later