T This inventive math teacher, Julie
H Has a whirlwind 4-year-old, Patrick, who is
E Eligible, most likely, for the label ADHD, but is it just
B “Boys will be boys” that describes him?
O Or is there something truly wrong?
Y You can follow along
W When he’s kicked out of preschool
I In the first month of class, and
T Their fragile family suffers.
H How are they to find childcare over a weekend?
T The child’s father, Luke, is lost.
H His ADHD blooms as he cries out,
E “Even my genes are failures!”
B But there is no choice. Luke must
U Understand that fatherhood is forever.
T There are changes both parents must make, as
T They are parts of an
E Entwined system,
R Relying on each other.
F From teacher back to student, Julie must ask for help.
L Luke must confront his family history to aid his son.
Y Yes, it’s hard. But readers say:
M Muster up the courage;
I Invest in the long-term success of your child; and
N Never, never, give up.
D Do your very very best.
A Novel
For fans of Jodi Picoult and Bonnie Garmus, an illuminating novel about a mother struggling to raise a healthy neurodivergent child with a husband worn down by depression.
When Julie Crawford’s whirlwind four-year-old is kicked out of preschool, suspected of having ADHD—likely genetic—her husband moans from his recliner that “even my genes are failures.” At work, Julie is a high school math teacher who requires her students to solve complex problems. But faced with an unsafe daycare home and no other daycare openings, a husband who hates the idea of labeling their son as a “problem,” and a supervisor who’s angry at the amount of time she’s taking off school, she’s at a loss for how to come up with a solution to this particular dilemma.
Julie’s struggle to help her son ultimately demands a number of mindset shifts: a willingness to become a student and ask for help, a humble acceptance of her errors, a burgeoning strength to reckon with a dominant father and retreating husband—and the self-confidence to trust her instincts when it comes to deciding on the best next steps for her son.
Women's Fiction Family Life [ She Writes Press, On Sale: August 11, 2026, Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 9798896363644 / eISBN: 9798896363651 ]
Lorelei Brush holds two doctoral degrees, both of which inform her writing. The first is in Developmental Psychology, the study of human beings as they grow from birth to death. For more than thirty years, Dr. Brush used her knowledge in this field to research and evaluate children’s learning. Her two non-fiction books address the specific issue of girls’ participation in mathematics .
Since 1996, Dr. Brush has worked in international education, spending 2006 to 2008 managing a large USAID-funded education project in the northwestern part of Pakistan, an area that was seriously affected by an earthquake in October 2005. During her years abroad, she directed a staff of about two hundred seventy and completed her Doctor of Ministry degree, which included an intensive study of Islam. The Pakistani women with whom she worked inspired her first novel, Uncovering, a tale of a group of Pakistani women confronted with the severe restrictions of fundamentalist Islam.
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