Fault Line Boy: A Mother's Reckoning with Epilepsy

For readers of Joan Didion and Emily Rapp Black, Fault Line Boy follows one mother through the whiplash of raising a child with severe epilepsy. A clear-eyed memoir of medical motherhood, marriage under strain, and the hard-won joy that still finds its way in.

How do you stay upright in a world that won’t stop shaking?

When her youngest son, Lew, begins experiencing relentless seizures, the life Jen Murphy Parker thought she knew—and the ordinary chaos of raising four children—disappears ove...