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Beautiful Eyes : a Father Transformed by Paul Austin [Austin, Paul] is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Beautiful Eyes : a Father Transformed about?

In 1987, Paul Austin and his wife Sally were newlyweds, excited about their future together and happily anticipating the birth of their first child. He was a medical student and she was a nurse. Everything changed the moment the doctor rushed their infant daughter from the room just after her birth, knowing instantly that something was wrong. Sarah had almond-shaped eyes, a single crease across her palm instead of three, and low-set ears all of which suggested that the baby had Down syndrome. Beginning on the day Sarah is born and ending when she is a young adult living in a group home, Beautiful Eyes is the story of a father's journey toward acceptance of a child who is different. In a voice that is unflinchingly honest and unerringly compassionate, Austin chronicles his life with his daughter: watching her learn to walk and talk and form her own opinions, making decisions about her future, and navigating cultural assumptions and prejudices all the while confronting, with poignancy and moving candor, his own limitations as her father. It is Sarah herself, who, in her own coming of age and her own reconciling with her difference, teaches her father to understand her. Time and again

Who reads Beautiful Eyes : a Father Transformed?

Author

Paul Austin [Austin, Paul]

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780143124917

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Collections, Medical

Rating

3.73 / 5 (678 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14