Stay connected via on IG, and join me and Taylor Harris on my IGLIVE at the end of January. The Amerie's Book Club selection for January 2022 is THIS BOY WE MADE by Taylor Harris! This Boy We Made is a stirring and radiantly written examination of the bond between mother and child, full of hard-won ins What if her son’s challenges have saved her life? And how can she choose the best path forward-for herself and for her beautiful, unsolvable boy? The test reveals nothing about what’s causing Tophs’s drops in blood sugar, his processing delays-but it does reveal something unexpected about Taylor’s own health. When Taylor brings Tophs to a long-awaited appointment with a geneticist, she hopes that this time, she’ll leave with answers. Some days, her sweet, charismatic boy seems just fine-others, he struggles to answer simple questions. She spends countless hours trying to navigate health and education systems that can be hostile to Black mothers and children at night she googles, prays, and interrogates her every action. With every question the doctors answer about Tophs’s increasingly troubling symptoms, more arise, and Taylor dives into the search for a diagnosis. But at the hospital, her maternal instincts are confirmed: something is wrong with her boy, and Taylor’s life will never be the same.
She rushes Tophs to the doctor, ignoring the part of herself, trained by years of therapy for generalized anxiety disorder, that tries to whisper that she’s overreacting. One morning, Tophs, Taylor Harris’s round-cheeked, lively twenty-two-month-old, wakes up listless and unresponsive.
A Black mother bumps up against the limits of everything she thought she believed-about science and medicine, about motherhood, and about her faith-in search of the truth about her son.
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