The Boy in the Moon

“The truth Brown learns from his severely disabled child is a rare one: The life that seems to destroy you is the one you long to embrace.” — New York Times Book Review Ian Brown’s son Walker is one of only about 300 people worldwide diagnosed with cardiofaciocutaneous (CFC) syndrome—an extremely rare genetic mutation that results in unusual facial appearance, the inability to speak, and a compulsion to hit himself constantly. At age thirteen, he is mentally and developmentally between one and t