Winner - 6th Annual Beverly Hills Book Award for Relationships and Parenting & Families
Award Finalist in the "Parenting & Family" category of the 2017 Best Book Awards
Finalist, 2018 Next Generation Indie Book Awards in the category of Memoirs-Overcoming Adversity/Tragedy
Linda Atwell and her strong-willed daughter, Lindsey-a high-functioning young adult with intellectual disabilities-have always had a complicated relationship. But when Lindsey graduates from Silverton High School at nineteen and gets a job at Goodwill, she also moves into a newly remodeled cottage in her parents' backyard-and Linda believes that all their difficult times may finally be behind them.
Life, however, proves not to be so simple. As Lindsey plunges into adulthood, she experiments with sex, considers a tubal ligation, and at twenty quits Goodwill and runs away with Emmett, a man more than twice her age. As Lindsey grows closer to Emmett, she slips further away from her family-but Linda, determined to save her daughter, refuses to give up. A touching memoir with unexpected moments of joy and humor, Loving Lindsey is a story about independence, rescue, resilience, and, most of all, love.
- ISBN10 1631522817
- ISBN13 9781631522819
- Publish Date 26 September 2017
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint She Writes Press
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 256
- Language English