Scenes with My Son: Love and Grief in the Wake of Suicide Hubbard Robert
Scenes with My Son: Love and Grief in the Wake of Suicide Hubbard Robert A celebration and an elegy, Scenes with My Son sensitively renders the terrible privilege of grief in the wake of…
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Scenes with My Son: Love and Grief in the Wake of Suicide Hubbard Robert
A celebration and an elegy, Scenes with My Son sensitively renders the terrible privilege of grief in the wake of suicide.After years of battling clinical depression exacerbated by autism, Auggie Hubbard died by suicide at the age of 19. His tireless lightsaber practice in the local park. In this poignant tribute to his son, Robert Hubbard--a theatre scholar and actor--stages Auggie's life in a series of vivid and tender scenes: Auggie's insatiable hunger for Accelerated Reader points.
Through these anecdotes of Auggie's life and the days following his death, readers journey with a family shaken by mental illness and share in their hard-won joys in defiance of depression.Refusing easy answers and clichs about "God's plan," Hubbard unflinchingly asks: Does faith matter amid such tragedy? What His sonorous tuba practice in the ward of his inpatient program.