Ghost boy : the miraculous escape of a misdiagnosed boy trapped inside his own body /
- xi, 276 pages ; 20 cm
Prologue -- Counting Time -- The Deep -- Coming Up for Air -- The Box -- Virna -- Awakening -- My Parents -- Changes -- The Beginning and the End -- Day by Day -- The Wretch -- Life and Death -- My Mother -- Other Worlds -- Fried Egg -- I Tell a Secret -- The Bite -- The Furies -- Peacock Feathers -- Daring to Dream -- Secrets -- Out of the Cocoon -- An Offer I Can’t Refuse -- A Leap Forward -- Standing in the Sea -- She Returns -- The Party -- Henk and Arrietta -- The Healer -- Escaping the Cage -- The Speech -- A New World -- The Laptop -- The Counselor -- Memories -- Lurking in Plain Sight -- Fantasies -- A New Friend -- Will He Ever Learn? -- GD and Mimi -- Loving Life and Living Love -- Worlds Collide -- Strangers -- Everything Changes -- Meeting Mickey? -- The Real Me -- A Lion’s Heart -- I Tell Her -- Sugar and Salt -- Falling -- Climbing -- The Ticket -- Coming Home -- Together -- I Can’t Choose -- Fred and Ginger -- Leaving -- A Fork in the Road -- Confessions -- Up, Up, and Away -- Saying Goodbye -- Letting Go -- A New Life -- Waiting -- Acknowledgments.
9781400205837
Pistorius, Martin--health.
Communicative disorders in children--patients--South Africa--biography. Mutism--anecdotes. Communication devices for people with disabilities.