Next Stop: A Memoir of Family

By Glen Finland

Book Overview

Next Stop is the universal story of how children grow up and parents learn to let go--no matter how difficult it may be for both of them. ? The summer David Finland was twenty-one, he and his mother rode the Washington, D.C., metro trains. Every day. The goal was that if David could learn the train lines, maybe David could get a job. And then maybe he could move out on his own. And then maybe his parents' marriage could get the jump-start it craved. Maybe. Next Stop is a candid portrait of a differently-abled young man poised at the entry to adulthood. It recounts the complex relationship between a child with autism and his family, as he steps out into the real world alone for the first time, and how his autism affects everyone who loves him.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039915860X
• ISBN13: 9780399158605
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.7" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher