New York: Pocket Books, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's highly praised fourth novel, the story of the bond between a mother and her youngest daughter, who was born with Down's syndrome, and of the mother's unceasing fight for dignity for her daughter. Inspired in part by the story of his grandmother, Myrtle Jewel Jurvis Lott, and his aunt Brenda Kay and including some incidents drawn from their lives. ISBN: 0-671-740385.