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Oliver Sacks called The Siege: A Family's Journey into the World of an Autistic Child "one of the first personal accounts of autism, and still the best -- beautiful and intelligent." Now, in Exiting Nirvana, Clara Claiborne Park continues the story of her daughter Jessy. In this moving, eloquent memoir, we see Jessy's progressive journey out of her isolated "Nirvana" into the world we all share. It is an honest and captivating story of emergence, perservance, and love. "A masterpiece. Clara Park's The Siege was also a masterpiece, but the two masterpieces are quite different. The first was about childhood. The second about maturity. Now we have prose instead of lyrics, serenity instead of passion. Clara has navigated through the storms and come safe to shore. Her daughter Jessy has grown slowly into self-awareness, and Clara's work is done." --Freeman Dyson, The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, author of "Origins of Life." |
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Read Oliver Sacks' review of Exiting Nirvana in the New York Review of Books.
Megan Rutherford's memoir of living with Jessy in Time Magazine, April 16, 2001.
Exiting Nirvana and The Siege can be purchased on Amazon.com by clicking on these links.
