9 edition of The boy who loved tornadoes found in the catalog.
Published
2010
by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill, N.C
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Written in English
Edition Notes
| Statement | Randi Davenport. |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | RJ506.A9 D38 2010 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | p. cm. |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL23668085M |
| ISBN 10 | 1565126114 |
| ISBN 10 | 9781565126114 |
| LC Control Number | 2009031221 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 419844287 |
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Inshe received the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writer’s Award for Creative Non-fiction, and was a finalist for the Books for a Better Life Award/5. The Boy Who Loved Tornadoes is “an unforgettable memoir of a shattered family, a mother’s abiding love, and the frightening permutations of the human mind” (Elle).
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Boy Who Loved Tornadoes" encompasses not just the primary story at hand, but Davenport's own experiences growing up as an aspiring poet (including the common tendency among poets to glorify mental illness as a divine state), her perceptions of mental illness, and the struggle to make senseFile Size: KB.
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The dad didn't mind it either, just because it was so well behaved. I liked this book because even though it was small it was really intense and great.
My favorite part was when Tornado came back to the boys house. My least favorite was when the real /5. In The Boy Who Loved Tornadoes, she gives voice to the experiences of countless families whose struggles with mental illness are likewise invisible to the larger world.
About the Author Randi Davenport received her MA in creative writing from Syracuse University as well as a PhD in literature. Randi Davenport’s harrowing new memoir is the kind of book to which the only appropriate response is sympathy. The Boy Who Loved Tornadoes begins, ordinarily enough, with a picnic.
But from the first pages, it’s clear that something isn’t right. The Boy Who Loved Tornadoes: Randi Davenport guides readers through the labyrinthine world of mental illness in her moving memoir, "The Boy Who Loved Tornadoes", masterfully weaving decades of memories into a truly groundbreaking family portrait.
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The Boy Who Loves Tornadoes is one of those rare memoirs in which a truly captivating story is brought to life by a talented writer. Davenport's prose is spare, gorgeous, and incredibly affecting.
This moving story of her son's illness, her daughter's sadness, and the desintegration of their family plays out like a feature film, with characters so well drawn that they appear in the reader's head/5.
Tornado Boys is the latest in the ever-popular ‘Boys’ series, and differs from earlier titles. With the introduction of female pilots to the RAF inthe Tornado was the first aircraft to be flown by both men and women. This is acknowledged in the book with a chapter written by one female pilot/5(16).
The boy who loved tornadoes: a mother's story. [Randi Davenport] -- Chronicles the author's struggle to protect her autistic son and help her daughter thrive despite the problems that their family faced.
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Davenport shows us the gritty and enraging reality of our long fractured mental health system, even at the best health facilities.
