Raising a Rare Girl
Raising a Rare Girl by Heather Lanier is a 2020 Science & Technology book written by TED speaker Heather Lanier, paired here with the talk they gave.
The pairing
- Paired talk: ""Good" and "bad" are incomplete stories we tell ourselves" (2017), 3.1M views on TED.com
- Timing: Published 3 years after the talk.
- Edition: Penguin Publishing Group, 2020 · 320 pages
The paired TED talk
"Good" and "bad" are incomplete stories we tell ourselves (2017), the TED talk by Heather Lanier.
From the publisher
The author's daughter was born with a very rare genetic syndrome and faced a daunting prognosis: she would be a fraction of normal size, have innumerable physical and mental difficulties and likely a shortened lifespan. Now, at age eight she is attending standard public school classes. This is the story of her family's journey