All I Can Handle: I'm No Mother Teresa

"Dr. Spock? Check. Penelope Ann Leach (remember her?)? Check. What to Expect When Youre Expecting? Check. I had a seven hundred dollar Bellini crib for Gods sake! I was perfect. And so was Mia when she was born . . ." ...and so begins Kim Staglianos electrifying and hilarious memoir of her familys journey raising three daughters with autism. In these stories, Stagliano has joined the ranks of David Sedaris and Augusten Burroughs with her amazing ability to lay everything on the tablefrom family, friends, and enemies to basement floods to birthdays to (possible) heroin addictionseviscerating and celebrating the absurd. From her love of Howard Stern to her increasing activism in the autism community and exhaustive search for treatments that will help her daughters, she covers it all. Always outspoken, often touching, and sometimes heartbreaking, Kim Stagliano is a powerful new voice in comedic writingher Kimoir (as she calls it) will be a must-read within the autism community and the literary world at large.