{"product_id":"raising-a-rare-girl-paperback","title":"Raising a Rare Girl - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHeather Lanier\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A remarkable book . . . I found myself thinking that all expectant and new parents should read it.\" --Michelle Slater \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBook Review \u003c\/i\u003eEditors' Choice  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e Raising a Rare Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, Lanier explores how to defy the tyranny of normal and embrace parenthood as a spiritual practice that breaks us open in the best of ways. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLike many women of her generation, when Heather Lanier was expecting her first child she did everything by the book in the hope that she could create a SuperBaby, a supremely healthy human destined for a high-achieving future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut her daughter Fiona challenged all of Lanier's preconceptions. Born with an ultra-rare syndrome known as Wolf-Hirschhorn, Fiona received a daunting prognosis: she would experience significant developmental delays and might not reach her second birthday. The diagnosis obliterated Lanier's perfectionist tendencies, along with her most closely held beliefs about certainty, vulnerability, God, and love. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With tiny bits of mozzarella cheese, a walker rolled to library story time, a talking iPad app, and a whole lot of pop and reggae, mother and daughter spend their days doing whatever it takes to give Fiona nourishment, movement, and language. Loving Fiona opens Lanier up to new understandings of what it means to be human, what it takes to be a mother, and above all, the aching joy and wonder that come from embracing the unique life of her rare girl.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeather Lanier is an essayist, memoirist, and poet. She's the author of two award-winning poetry chapbooks: \u003ci\u003eHeart-Shaped Bed in Hiroshima\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Story You Tell Yourself\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Wick Poetry Open Chapbook Competition. Her nonfiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eSalon, The Southern Review, The Threepenny Review, Fourth Genre, Brevity, Vela, \u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere. She has received an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award and a Vermont Creation Grant. A graduate of Ohio State University's MFA program, she's now an Assistant Professor of Creative Nonfiction at Rowan University. Her TED talk, \"'Good' and 'Bad' Are Incomplete Stories We Tell Ourselves,\" has been viewed over two million times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 06, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47460857872562,"sku":"9780525559658","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/df3a63ee40c38081a8d55103a24bd590.webp?v=1778933848","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/raising-a-rare-girl-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}