Life As We Know It: A Father, A Family, And An Exceptional Child

Plot

When Jamie Bérubé was born with Down syndrome in 1991, he was immediately subject to the medical procedures, insurance guidelines, policies, and representations that surround every child our societydesignates as disabled.  In this wrenching yet ultimately inspiring book, Jamie's father, literary scholar MichaelBérubé, describes not only the challenges of raising his son but the challenge of seeing him as a personrather than as a medical, genetic, or social problem.