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Simon & Schuster, September 2009
Hardcover, 272 pages
ISBN-10: 1416576525
ISBN-13: 9781416576525
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Both a medical drama and meditation on motherhood, The Water Giver is Joan Ryan's honest account of her doubts and mistakes in raising a learning-disabled son and the story of how his near-fatal accident gave her a second chance as a parent.
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Browse Inside The Water Giver"We have to admire Ryan for tackling these topics. It is one thing to
live through the experiences as they occur; it is quite another to
re-create them honestly and effectively. And though the story Ryan
tells is unique...the themes of love, grace and redemption that run
through her discussion are ideas with which we can all relate."
-- Christina Eng, The San Francisco Chronicle
"Given the perspective that sometimes only a crisis can bring, Ryan learns to forgive herself for the smaller struggles of her son's earlier years, to take each day's challenges as they come and to trust herself to be the only mother that he needs."
-- Publishers Weekly
Marin Magazine, August 9, 2010
...music play a different role in popular culture than it once did? Huey Lewis shares his unique perspective. Joan Ryan is an award-winning journalist and author. Her most recent book is 'The Water Giver: The Story of a Mother, a Son and Their ...
East Bay Express, November 10, 2009
...Told that her sixteen-year-old son had just fallen off a skateboard and hit his head, Joan Ryan rushed to the scene: 'There was no blood. No obvious injury.' Agitated, the teen who went by his middle name, Ryan, which is also his mother's ...
Individual.com, November 4, 2009
...(The Tribune-Star - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Among the many truths Joan Ryan shares in her new book, "The Water Giver," is this: "You don't need to go to a monastery in Tibet to learn about living in the moment ...
TheDay.com, October 16, 2009
... Always the perfectionist, the high achiever, Joan Ryan knew she was going to be a great mother. But though she loved her son fiercely, she was not the mother she had envisioned. I just didn't have ...
TheDay.com, October 8, 2009
...Irish fare buffet; $30; benefits the Frank Olean Center; For tickets call (401) 378-0455 or (401) 596-2610. Author Joan Ryan 5:30 p.m., Mitchell College library, Pequot Ave., New London; award-winning journalist and author will discuss her ...
Denver Post, October 7, 2009
...Seen Gallery View more pictures from social events around town in the exclusive 'Seen' gallery. pioneering sports journalist Joan Ryan, whose third book, 'The Water Giver: The Story of a Mother, a Son and Their Second Chance,' chronicles her ...
San Francisco Chronicle, September 8, 2009
...Editor's note: Joan Ryan is an award-winning journalist and author who lives in Marin County. She worked as a sports and news columnist at the San Francisco Examiner, then The Chronicle, from 1985 ...
San Francisco Chronicle, September 8, 2009
...Joan Ryan is an award-winning journalist and author who lives in Marin County. She worked as a sports and news columnist at the San Francisco Examiner, then The Chronicle, from 1985 ...
Hartford Courant, September 3, 2009
...Combustion' (Voice, $13.99. On Wednesday at 7 p.m., one of the nation's first female sportswriters, Joan Ryan, talks about her touching memoir, 'The Water Giver: The Story of a Mother, a Son, and Their Second Chance' (Simon & Schuster, $24), ...
Marin Independent Journal, April 21, 2009
...When Joan Ryan of Ross started to write her new book, 'The Water Giver,' she thought it would be about her son and his near-fatal skateboarding accident. It turned out to be ...
