The Chicken Who Saved Us, Kristin Jarvis Adams
The Chicken Who Saved Us, Kristin Jarvis Adams
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The Chicken Who Saved Us
The Remarkable Story of Andrew and Frightful

Author: Kristin Jarvis Adams

Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt

Unabridged: 9 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/25/2022

Synopsis

The award-winning, laugh-out-loud, reach-for-the-tissues story of an autistic boy's desperate struggle to survive a deadly illness and the backyard chicken who transforms his life into a tale of improbable hope and miraculous healing.

Eight-year-old Andrew is autistic and bilingual. He speaks English and Chicken. With words limited by autism, Andrew lives in a fantastic world where chickens talk and superheroes come alive. But when he tells his pet chicken Frightful that his body is trying to kill him, it launches Andrew's family and an entire medical community into a decade-long quest for answers. This beautiful, fierce, and refreshingly honest memoir takes listeners on a mother's journey through the complex landscape of modern medicine to discover the healing bond between a boy and Frightful, the chicken who saves them all.

About Kristin Jarvis Adams

Kristin Jarvis Adams is the author of the award-winning book The Chicken Who Saved Us: The Remarkable Story of Andrew and Frightful which has received national attention in the Wall Street Journal and has been featured on NBC News West Coast affiliates, the Washington Post, Fred Hutch News, ParentMap Magazine, Autism Parenting Magazine, Seattle Children's Pulse, 406 Woman Magazine, 425 Magazine, and Pacific Northwest community newspapers.

Kristin is a public speaker and guest podcaster who enjoys chatting about her many adventures in parenting, the challenges of raising a child with autism, the power of the human-animal bond, and the mysterious superpowers of backyard chickens.

In her free time, she can be found buried in a good book, painting in her studio, or chasing chickens around her back yard. She lives near Seattle with her husband.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sarah

Andrew and Frightful, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways. This remarkable memoir told through the eyes of one determined, devoted mother, tells the story of her autistic son, Andrew's rare gene mutation, Trisomy 8 Mosaicism (T8M). This condition manifests itself in a myriad of complications a......more

Goodreads review by Perri

Came for the cover, stayed for the book. Heart rending true story of medical miracles and a personality packed little hen, but it's Hannah who's the true hero!......more

Goodreads review by Koren

Touching story about a young boy with autism who developed a serious disease and how a chicken helped him through it, as told by the mother. Very interesting.......more

Goodreads review by Missy

I read this book based on the recommendation of a friend whose child had been diagnosed with the same disease as Andrew, the child at the center of this book. While the writing and story are compelling for so many reasons, the biggest reason for reading this book, in my opinion, is for the inside vi......more

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