Precipice Fruit tells the story of Jenna, a young girl with an autism spectrum diagnosis whose spirit transcends the stigmatizing forces around her. Often pigeon-holed, manhandled, and misunderstood by her doctors and teachers, Jenna blossoms into a young girl with a perspective entirely her own. Different points of view clash against each other in this series of poems—the cold objectivity of the clinician, the private terror and faith of the mother, the punitive decree of the teacher, the spirited self-narration of the child.
Precipice Fruit
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