Fragile Innocence: A Father's Memoir of His Daughter's Courageous Journey
Published in 2006, James wrote about his daughter. Hillary Rory McTier Reston was, we thought, the most verbal of our three children. It was hard to know for sure how many words she had acquired in the first eighteen months of her life, but my wife, Denise, thought it was in the 200 range. Tragically, in the summer of 1983 we watched them disappear one by one until they were reduced to “Da-Da” and “birdie” and then nothing. Some undefined, evil virus had invaded her brain, and besides destroying her language, this evil seed gave her terrible brain seizures from which she suffers to this day, 28 years later. Read more in JR Obsessions...
It was one of the Best Books of 2006: Washington Post, reaching #8 on Washington Post Best Seller List
Fragile Innocence: A Father's Memoir of His Daughter's Courageous Journey"...[a] carefully crafted memoir....Fragile Innocence is a page-turning read. Most of all though, it's a story of a father's discovery, the discovery that love trumps terror, that love finds expression despite seemingly impossible circumstances. In the end, it's the story of a father's love for his daughter." --Washington Post
"A story of love---and hope." --Newsweek"
Renown author James Reston, Jr. details the heart-wrenching saga of his daughter....Hillary herself---without speech or language, with a nine-month old's intellect---makes the case for the value of every life. This is a compelling story." --Publishers Weekly"
There is real polemic threaded through this memoir---an insistence that disabled, retarded or handicapped children's lives matter just as much as everyone else's.....Moving. --Kirkus
The book can be found on Amazon.
It was one of the Best Books of 2006: Washington Post, reaching #8 on Washington Post Best Seller List
Fragile Innocence: A Father's Memoir of His Daughter's Courageous Journey"...[a] carefully crafted memoir....Fragile Innocence is a page-turning read. Most of all though, it's a story of a father's discovery, the discovery that love trumps terror, that love finds expression despite seemingly impossible circumstances. In the end, it's the story of a father's love for his daughter." --Washington Post
"A story of love---and hope." --Newsweek"
Renown author James Reston, Jr. details the heart-wrenching saga of his daughter....Hillary herself---without speech or language, with a nine-month old's intellect---makes the case for the value of every life. This is a compelling story." --Publishers Weekly"
There is real polemic threaded through this memoir---an insistence that disabled, retarded or handicapped children's lives matter just as much as everyone else's.....Moving. --Kirkus
The book can be found on Amazon.