TY - BOOK AU - Dunsford, Clare TI - Spelling love with an X : : a mother, a son, and the gene that binds them SN - 9780807072790 PY - 2007/// CY - Boston, MA PB - Beacon Press KW - FRAGILE X SYNDROME KW - FAMILY INTERACTION KW - FAMILY EXPERIENCES N1 - Pt. 1. The fragile site Anticipation: Once upon a time Hairpin turns: doctors and divorce Linkage: family ties Pt. 2. Hotspots Replication fork: motherhood Base pairs: like mother, like son Transcription and translation: speaking of love Repeats: obsessions Saltation: coming up for air Mutants and wild types: you and me against the world Vectors: what lies ahead N2 - "Uses poetry and candor to document a condition the world knows little about by inviting the reader into snapshots of the disability that has been woven throughout the fabric of her life - from coming to terms with her role as the carrier to the poetic retelling of the roller coaster that is life with her son." - BOOK JACKET ER -