For fans of Jodi Picoult and Bonnie Garmus, an illuminating novel about a mother struggling to raise a healthy neurodivergent child with a husband worn down by depression.When Julie Crawford's whirlwind four-year-old is kicked out of preschool, suspected of having ADHDlikely geneticher husband moans from his recliner that ';even my genes are failures.' At work, Julie is a high school math teacher who requires her students to solve complex problems. But faced with an unsafe daycare home and no other daycare openings, a husband who hates the idea of labeling their son as a ';problem,' and a supervisor who's angry at the amount of time she's taking off school, she's at a loss for how to come up with a solution to this particular dilemma. Julie's struggle to help her son ultimately demands a number of mindset shifts: a willingness to become a student and ask for help, a humble acceptance of her errors, a burgeoning strength to reckon with a dominant father and retreating husbandand the self-confidence to trust her instincts when it comes to deciding on the best next steps for her son.

For fans of Jodi Picoult and Bonnie Garmus, an illuminating novel about a mother struggling to raise a healthy neurodivergent child with a husband worn down by depression.When Julie Crawford's whirlwind four-year-old is kicked out of preschool, suspected of having ADHDlikely geneticher husband moans from his recliner that ';even my genes are failures.' At work, Julie is a high school math teacher who requires her students to solve complex problems. But faced with an unsafe daycare home and no other daycare openings, a husband who hates the idea of labeling their son as a ';problem,' and a supervisor who's angry at the amount of time she's taking off school, she's at a loss for how to come up with a solution to this particular dilemma. Julie's struggle to help her son ultimately demands a number of mindset shifts: a willingness to become a student and ask for help, a humble acceptance of her errors, a burgeoning strength to reckon with a dominant father and retreating husbandand the self-confidence to trust her instincts when it comes to deciding on the best next steps for her son.