Baby Book - Whitney, Emerson
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While shifting through his mother's old papers in the aftermath of her suicide, Emerson Whitney makes a revelatory discovery: he and his mom shared not only a diagnosis of Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, a painful degenerative condition, but also possibly another diagnosis: autism. This revelation prompts a profound exploration into disability, diagnosis, and self-acceptance. Baby Book brings us back into Emerson Whitney's (Heaven, Daddy Boy) generous, searching mind. We travel through the Maine landscape, with its seaspray and lobster pots and ship-themed home decor, as Emerson combs lovingly through…mehr

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While shifting through his mother's old papers in the aftermath of her suicide, Emerson Whitney makes a revelatory discovery: he and his mom shared not only a diagnosis of Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, a painful degenerative condition, but also possibly another diagnosis: autism. This revelation prompts a profound exploration into disability, diagnosis, and self-acceptance. Baby Book brings us back into Emerson Whitney's (Heaven, Daddy Boy) generous, searching mind. We travel through the Maine landscape, with its seaspray and lobster pots and ship-themed home decor, as Emerson combs lovingly through his mother's life, trying to understand this woman who at times was so sweet it felt perilous. While home, Emerson runs into his mother's friend, who suggests that perhaps "she just needed permission to be more herself." What had stood between her and this permission? What would it have looked like if she'd have felt free to be herself? Not long after this exchange, Emerson orders his first wheelchair, a beautiful rigid thing with an opalescent frame. With openhearted and unflinching prose, Emerson gives us a book about tremendous grief, true love, and the powerful beauty of embracing disability.
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Autorenporträt
Emerson Whitney is a writer and a professor. Their book Heaven, McSweeney's 2020, was named a 'best book' by the AV Club, PAPER, Literary Hub, Refinery29, Ms. Magazine, Chicago Review of Books, the Observer, and the Seattle Times. Heaven was also awarded a Kirkus star and was written about by nonfiction editor at Kirkus, Eric Liebetrau, in a piece called "Queer Memoir Old and New" as a profile of Emerson and Heaven is compared to Alice B. Toklas' by Gertrude Stein. Heaven also won a silver medal in the Independent Publisher Book Awards and continues to garner praise. Emerson was named a 2020 Now List awardee in literature alongside Ocean Vuong and Danez Smith by Them magazine. Emerson's writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Believer, Paris Review and elsewhere.