Michael Cross: Dare the Night, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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"This memoir chronicles Mike Cross's experience of losing over 90% of his vision as an eight-year-old child and then attempting to live a normal life. Beginning in 1955, it is the story of a Houston area family raising a daughter and two disabled sons, one blind and the other with osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease), the parents striving to help their children obtain educations and build meaningful futures. Mike's battle to adjust to blindness while pursuing a public education with all its barriers to disabled students culminates in the triumph of becoming co-valedictorian of his 1966 high school class, the only blind student in a class of 530. He goes on in the 1970s to earn advanced degrees in mathematics at the University of Houston while interning at NASA, writing computer software for the Apollo and the upcoming space shuttle programs. Later chapters cover Mike's becoming a husband and father; his career at IBM in Austin during the formative years of the personal computer; and the death of his son in the 2017 mass shooting in Plano, Texas. The memoir shows the impact of events on family members, giving a clear picture of resilience and illustrating the transformative power of a good education plus the will to always press forward in life. Dare the Night aims to dispel gloom and to encourage hope and perseverance in even the most challenging situations"-- Provided by publisher.