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SONGS OF THE GORILLA NATION: MY JOURNEY THROUGH AUTISM

By Dawn Prince-Hughes, Ph.D.

Three Rivers Press


ABOUT THE BOOK


In this elegant and thought-provoking memoir, Dawn Prince-Hughes traces her
personal growth from undiagnosed autism to the moment, as a young woman,
when she entered the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle and became immediately
fascinated with the gorillas.  By observing them and, later, working with
them, Price-Hughes was finally able to emerge from her solitude and connect
to living beings in a way she had never previously experienced.  More than a
story of autism, Songs of the Gorilla Nation is a poignant, beautifully
written exploration of the rich landscape of human emotion and the ways we
can learn to love.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR


Dawn Prince-Hughes received her M.A. and Ph.D. in interdisciplinary
anthropology from the Universitat Herisau in Switzerland and is an
instructor in the department of anthropology at Western Washington
University. She is the author of Gorillas Among Us: A Primate Ethnographer's
Book of Days and the editor of Aquamarine Blue 5: Personal Stories of
College Students with Autism and is on the advisory board of Ape-Net, a
nonprofit organization.


TABLE OF CONTENTS


INTRODUCTION     1

Part One: A LIFE Without SONG   9

1 A Culture of One   11

2 A Chaos of Noise: Understanding Autism   27

3 The Silence Before Dawn   35

4 Starting Off Key   63


Part Two: The SONGS of the GORILLA NATION   89

5 Music Behind the Looking Glass Cage   91

6 The Difficulty of Lyrics Long and Unfamiliar   111

7 Requiem   157


Part Three: HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING?   163

8 Ancestral Hymns: A Family History   165

9 Successes   179

10 Sharing the Songs   199


EPILOGUE   213


ADDITIONAL READING   225


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HOW TO ORDER


ISBN: 14000-5058-8

Paperback/ $12.95


Three Rivers Press

Crown Publishing Group

1745 Broadway

New York, New York 10019

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Posted 4 May 2005