This Boy We Made A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown

Taylor Harris

eBook - 2022

A Black mother bumps up against the limits of everything she thought she believed—about science and medicine, about motherhood, and about her faith—in search of the truth about her son."The memoir dedicates important space to the numbing bureaucracy that often accompanies medical visits, particularly as seen through the eyes of a Black woman in the South. Having moved often within White neighborhoods and educational institutions around her home in Charlottesville, Harris is unflinching about her periodic unease in those quarters . . . Harris also brings humor to bear in moments of great adversity."—Karen Iris Tucker, The Washington PostOne morning, Tophs, Taylor Harris’s round-cheeked, lively twenty-two-month-old, wakes up... listless, only lifting his head to gulp down water. She rushes Tophs to the doctor, ignoring the part of herself, trained by years of therapy for generalized anxiety disorder, that tries to whisper that... more