Raising Abel by Carolyn Nash is free today from the Amazon Kindle store, and has received a perfect 5 out of 5 stars based on 31 customer reviews. You can pick up your free copy by clicking here or typing in http://amzn.to/w6O4hJ into your computer’s web browser:
Category: Autobiography
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
A woman of remarkable resourcefulness single-handedly raises a troubled child all the way to manhood in this intimate and inspiring blog-to-book memoir.
At 38, Carolyn Nash had a good job, no apparent struggles and few conscious regrets—save, perhaps, her weight and her childlessness. She remedies the latter by fostering and then adopting 3-year-old Abel, a victim of unspeakable parental abuse, most of it sexual. The consequences are predictable and agonizing. Abel is charmingly innocent yet uncontrollably violent, and as he grows, so do his PTSD symptoms. He refuses to bathe,
he fails in school. Thrown toys become thrown punches, then smashed windshields. Psychiatrists are consulted, police called. Special education, home-schooling, hospitalizations, meds—all resources are tried and exhausted. Yet Nash remains indefatigable, wrestling with her son (literally) and with her inner demons and repressed memories, haltingly revealed in sessions with her therapist. Through the lens of Abel’s trauma, Nash peers into her own nightmares—she too feels deformed and unlovable—and learns their sick source. The book is structured almost entirely in short, dramatic episodes, a technique Nash uses skillfully… late in the story, when the troubled teen turns violently on Nash herself … we get a penetrating glimpse into Abel’s beating heart, where his triggers, his alienation and his lifelong struggle come into searing focus. Here Nash gives
us Abel in full, and we see with our own eyes how the measure of this young man is also the measure of the woman who raised him—with pure, dogged, unrelenting, overwhelming, at times selfish, often desperate, boundless, evergreen love. This was her treatment and her cure. We know it by its common term—mothering.
A sobering but uplifting tale of love that never gives up; dramatically told, ultimately rewarding.
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March 9th, 2012 at 9:57 am
If you have a child, or know someone who does, or just know what a child IS you have to read this book !
April 1st, 2012 at 3:06 pm
If they share an account. You can share on up to 6 diceves on one account. My husband and I share our kindle account and its nice not to fight over who gets the book first anymore The only problem there is that you can only have one credit card registered, but you can apply giftcards so you’d have to figure out the whole who’s paying and how thing.Oh, and the nook does allow sharing but you need to read the fine print. It only allows you to loan the books ONE time for 14 days max. And that’s only on about half non-copywritten books in their store. So its very, very limited. And last time I poked my head into the nook forums they were still having issues figuring out how to share them without the software screwing it up. Unfortunately their software is horrible still. I was hoping for some real competition for Amazon.Oh and you can’t just move the files from your kindle to hers. The files are keyed to a specific kindle (its the same with the nook and sony reader, part of the DRM)