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I Dream He Talks to Me

A Memoir of Learning How to Listen

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I Dream He Talks to Me

By: Allison Moorer
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From a Grammy-nominated musician comes a lyrical testament to love and resilience through the lens of parenting her young son, who has nonverbal autism.

When Allison’s son, John Henry, stopped using his growing vocabulary just before his second birthday, she knew in her bones that something was shifting. In the years since his autism diagnosis, Allison and John Henry have embarked on an intense journey filled with the adventure, joy, heartbreak, confusion, and powerful love lessons that are the hallmarks of a quest for understanding.

In I Dream He Talks to Me, Allison details the meltdowns and the moments of grace, and how the mundane expectations of a parent turn into extraordinary achievements. The saying goes, “If you know one person with autism, you know one person with autism”; no two stories are alike, and yet there are universal truths that apply to all parent-child relationships. With gorgeous prose, Allison shares her and John Henry’s experience while also creating a riveting narrative that will speak to anyone who parents - and who has questioned their own ability to do so. An exploration of resilience and compassion - both for ourselves and for others - I Dream He Talks to Me is also a moving meditation on our place in the world and how we get there; what words mean, what they don’t; and, ultimately, how we truly express ourselves and truly know those whom we love.

©2021 Allison Moorer (P)2021 Hachette Books
Children's Health Entertainment & Celebrities Relationships Celebrity Autism Heartfelt Dream Resilience
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"Moorer’s candor and self-doubt are achingly honest and oftentimes funny, making this not a story of heartbreak but a celebration of life’s struggles and rewards. This is a parenting book worth reading twice." (Publishers Weekly)

“I love every inch of Allison Moorer - her brilliant mind, her poetic melodic voice, her huge heart and humanity, her guts and courage, and those feet planted so solidly and soulfully on the earth. Blood was a tremendous achievement, so lyrical, wise, heartbreaking, charming, and beautifully written; and so is I Dream He Talks to Me, both a memoir of her non-verbal autistic son, and a journey into the truth of who we all are.” (Anne Lamott)

"Life can wear us down and make us bitter, or it can soften our hearts and make us wise. I can think of no one who personifies this wisdom better than Allison Moorer. Her luminous, beautifully written book is a paean to maternal love and devotion, and also something more: befitting a songwriter of her great gifts, I would call it a hymn." (Dani Shapiro, New York Times best-selling author of Inheritance and Family History)

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A Touching and Beautiful Enlightening Book.

Stumbled across totally by chance as I was looking for another music industry book to read, having just completed the brilliant Holland Dozier Holland song writing book. One of the most touching books I have ever read/listened to and brilliantly read by the author and can't believe how lucky I was to have found it. It puts so much in life into perspective and truly makes you understand autism. I believe this book would help so many people appreciate what others go through not just in autism but life in general when you are confronted with obstacles. So much respect for the honesty contained within the book.

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