A review by meghan111
My Baby Rides the Short Bus: The Unabashedly Human Experience of Raising Kids with Disabilities by Yantra Bertelli, Sarah Talbot, Jennifer Silverman

4.0

I can't remember much about this anthology collecting personal essays written by parents of children with disabilities, but the author event held at the Olympia Timberland Library was wonderful and memorable - several writers read their essays, and there were tears while a woman read aloud an essay that in part dealt with her feelings about sending her Deaf teenage son to a Deaf boarding school. There was another emotional moment when a woman wrote about her younger son's experience realizing he was different from other kids, and her son was in the audience and openly crying while she spoke. Most of the writers had brought their families with them to the reading, and it was really great.