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Strange Son: Two Mothers, Two Sons, and the Quest to Unlock the Hidden World of Autism
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3.9 out of 5
Based on 48 Ratings and 48 Reviews

Book Description
The groundbreaking true story of two mothers, worlds apart, united in a struggle to connect with their autistic sons.

Emmy(r)-winning art director Portia Iversen's life was turned upside down when her son Dov was diagnosed with autism. But when she heard a miraculous story of a woman in India who had taught her own severely autistic son to communicate, she brought Soma and Tito Mukhopadhyay fro... More

Book Information
PublisherRiverhead Books
BindingPaperback (7 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages432
ISBN-101594482721
ISBN-13978-1594482724
Publication Date11/06/2007
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About Portia Iversen (Author) : Portia Iversen is a published author and an illustrator of children's books. Some of the published credits of Portia Iversen include Strange Son: Two Mothers, Two Sons, and the Quest to Unlock the Hid... more
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