THE WARNER BOYS: OUR FAMILY’S STORY OF AUTISM AND HOPE
By Curt Warner, Ana Warner and Dave Boling
This is an interesting and touching story of former Seattle Seahawks player Curt Warner, his wife Ana, and their four children, two of whom are twins diagnosed with autism when they were young. The story traces Curt’s career, his meeting and marrying Ana, their devastating loss of a first child, and then the challenges they faced with raising a not-so-“normal” family.
The Warner family’s strength through many years of love, turbulence and chaos is inspirational. The writing was ok, but it definitely seemed that someone else wrote the book (I’m assuming Dave Boling), since it was written almost in magazine article style, as if the couple were being interviewed. I would have liked to have heard more about the impact of the twins’ autism on the other two children in the family; this was touched on, but never explored in depth. Overall, although the story was interesting and somewhat informative on autism and the impact on a family, I think there were a lot of additional layers that could have been uncovered.
Thank you to NetGalley and Little A publishers for an ARC in exchange for my honest review.
Reviewed December 2018
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