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Earn 5X Rewards 1/1 - 12/31A New York Times Top 10 Book of 2011
The Boy in the Moon is Ian Brown's powerful, honest, and emotionally complicated memoir of raising his son, Walkerone of only a few hundred people worldwide who live with an extremely rare genetic mutation.
Born with CFC (cardiofaciocutaneous) syndrome, Walker Brown is a mystery, as remote to his family as the moon. Unable to speak or swallow, compelled to hit himself, requiring surgeries, and round-the-cloc…
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