Falling: A Daughter, a Father, and a Journey Back

Elisha Cooper spends his mornings creating children's books and his afternoons playing with his two daughters. But when he discovers a lump in five-year-old Zoë's midsection as she sits on his lap at a Chicago Cubs game, everything changes. Surgery, sleepless nights, months of treatment, a drumbeat of worry. Even as the family moves to New York and Zoë starts kindergarten, they must navigate a new normal: school and soccer and hot chocolate at the local café, inter­rupted by visits to the hospital. Elisha and his wife help their daughters maintain a sense of stability and joy in their family life. And he tries to understand this new world--how it changes art and language and laughter--as he holds on to the protective love he feels for his child. With the observant eye of an artist and a remarkable sense of humor, Cooper captures this emotional journey back to health.

• | Author: Elisha Cooper
• | Publisher: Anchor Books
• | Publication Date: Jun 13, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 160 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1101971843
• | ISBN-13: 9781101971840