Shut Away: When Down Syndrome Was a Life Sentence a tragic, heartbreaking, personal story
Catherine McKercher takes this kind of risk in her absorbing new book about her brother Bill, who was born with Down Syndrome and was locked away in the Smiths Fall Ontario Hospital School at the age of two and remained there until he died at age 36 of Hepatitis B, a disease he caught while in that institution.
OTTAWA—A journalist who writes personally enters into dangerous territory.
I’m not talking about the kind of personal writing that food and fashion and sometimes sportswriters do. I’m talking about writing from the heart about subjects of real consequence. Writing that bares the soul is risky...
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