{"product_id":"beautiful-mystery-living-in-a-wordless-world-hardback-9781478029250","title":"Beautiful Mystery; Living in a Wordless World (Hardback) 9781478029250","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBeautiful Mystery\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLiving in a Wordless World\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDanilyn Rutherford (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781478029250\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 September 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages, 3 illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.572 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“Danilyn Rutherford has given us a riveting and powerful chronicle. Her writing is luminous, moving, and deeply thoughtful. She carries us along on her path to knowledge gained over many years as she learns the most essential of life lessons from living with her disabled daughter Millie and the fellow travelers in the disability worlds she has traversed: What it means to be human in ways that embrace the vast diversity and ‘beautiful mystery’ of the bodyminds we are privileged to encounter.” - Faye Ginsburg, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eDisability Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cem\u003eBeautiful Mystery\u003c\/em\u003e is that rare and precious book: both an unforgettable personal story and a powerfully argued view of how to think about profound human difference. Beautifully written and deeply moving.” - T. M. Luhrmann, author of \u003ci\u003eHow God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWhen Danilyn Rutherford and her husband Craig noticed that their six-month-old daughter Millie wasn’t making eye contact, they took her to their pediatrician. And an optometrist. Then a neurologist. Later, to a team of physical and occupational therapists. None of the doctors could give Millie a diagnosis, but it was clear that her brain was not developing at the rate it should. At an age when some children take their first steps, Millie had the cognitive ability and motor skills of a three-month-old. Three years later, Craig died suddenly of a heart attack and Danilyn found herself on the precipice of her anthropology career as a widow and single mother, still trying to solve the puzzle posed by Millie’s inaccessible mind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow in her twenties, Millie has never been able to express herself verbally, but she has a thriving social environment rooted in the people around her and in things her companions and family can see, hear, smell, and feel. Life in Millie’s world is far richer than might be immediately evident to those who think and communicate in conventional ways.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eBeautiful Mystery\u003c\/em\u003e explores what it means to be a person in the spaces between what we can and cannot say, and how we can fight to care for those we love when they don’t have the language to fight for themselves. Through her unique lens as a mother and an anthropologist, Rutherford tells the story of arriving in Millie’s world, what she found there, and how Millie showed her that words aren’t always what makes us human. Enlightening and deeply felt, \u003cem\u003eBeautiful Mystery\u003c\/em\u003e proves that you don’t have to understand someone to love them - a lesson that, if we all learned it, might allow us to live together in a fractured world.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePrologue  vii\u003cbr\u003eWorlds Without Words  1\u003cbr\u003e1. Leaving the Ground  11\u003cbr\u003eWhat to Expect  13\u003cbr\u003eDiagnosis  21\u003cbr\u003eEarly Intervention  31\u003cbr\u003eWhat Millie Remembers  47\u003cbr\u003eNo Future  55\u003cbr\u003eII. The Lessons  69\u003cbr\u003eProximity to Disability  71\u003cbr\u003eThe Sovereignty of Vulnerability  91\u003cbr\u003eBecoming an Operating System  107\u003cbr\u003eProprioceptive Sociality  133\u003cbr\u003eIII. Millie’s Flock  149\u003cbr\u003eCross Country  151\u003cbr\u003eWhat Social Worlds Are Made Of  163\u003cbr\u003eThe Rest of a Life  181\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue  191\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  195\u003cbr\u003eNotes  199\u003cbr\u003eBibliography  209\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52656098148632,"sku":"9781478029250","price":20.27,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/beautiful-mystery-living-in-a-wordless-world-hardback-9781478029250","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}