Upside-Down and Backwards: A Mother's Story

By Mary Kay Kusner

Upside-down and Backwards is the story of how a mother, who is also a chaplain, answered the call to birth a child. Having three healthy boys, Kusner believed that this child was to be a completion of a dream, the fulfillment of their family. Instead, Anna is born with genetic abnormalities and Kusner must face feelings of betrayal by a God she had always trusted and promoted. Filled with honesty, humor and hope, Upside-Down and Backwards invites the reader to see what it?s really like to live with a child who is different. Kusner does not shrink from the truth of her emotions towards her daughter but tells it ?like it is? so that we can enter into her world without the social constraints of how she is supposed to feel. Her work with dying patients gives her a unique ability to ask the forbidden questions, leading us to deeper and more authentic answers about what it means to parent a special needs child. The life lessons are for each of us, inviting us to rethink what we have seen as most important in life. It?s Upside-down and Backwards?just like Anna.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0979939070
• ISBN13: 9780979939075
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Caritas Communications
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.