Girl Storm is a memoir by Peg Kerswell about raising a profoundly autistic daughter and eventually placing her in a home. While reading it, I had to set it down multiple times out of devastation and sadness. The last 15 percent or so of the book is one of the most disturbing things I’ve read. But it’s all written in a clear-eyed, non-sentimental, non-melodramatic manner, and up until it becomes horrifying it has a lot of humor, even though the nonverbal autistic daughter, Ellie, is constantly undergoing tortuous medical procedures and screaming and crying and hitting everyone.
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