All I Can Handle

A memoir of the author's journey raising three daughters with autism. It includes stories that lay everything on the table - from family, friends, and enemies to basement floods to birthdays to (possible) heroin addictions - eviscerating and celebrating the absurd. Dr. Spock? Check. Penelope Ann Leach (Remember her?) Check. What to Expect When You’re Expecting? Check. I had a seven hundred dollar Bellini crib for God’s sake! Everything was perfect…” ...and so begins Kim Stagliano’s electrifying and hilarious memoir of her family’s journey raising three daughters with autism. Always outspoken, often touching, and sometimes heartbreaking, Kim Stagliano is a powerful new voice in comedic writing—her “Kimoir” (as she calls it) is the next must-read within the autism community and the literary world at large.