Review in the Yale Alumni Magazine

Many years ago, when still a high school senior, I visited New Haven with my mom to have an interview and tour the campus of Yale University.  After the interview, my mom and I called my dad to tell him it had gone well and that I loved the school.  Over the phone, my dad started singing, “Boola boola.”

These are the kinds of events we have as children that make us remember our parents:  the times we made them proud.  I was admitted to Yale that fall and managed to make it out intact, with my B.A. in Literature.  I don’t write much about my college experience in This Lovely Life, but it is absolutely the case that experience of being an intellectual, among the brightest of my generation, informed the way I wrote about being a mother to a disabled child, many years later.

This month, the Yale Alumni Magazine ran a lovely review of my book, one that brings my time at Yale, and the experience I describe in This Lovely Life wonderfully, beautifully full circle.  And, yes, it made my dad proud, all over again.