Anne Clinard Barnhill

What oth­ers have to say about At Home in the Land of Oz:

“AT HOME IN THE LAND OF OZ tells the story of a fam­ily striv­ing to keep a per­ilous bal­ance while nur­tur­ing an autis­tic mem­ber. It is first of all just that, a story filled with sus­pense, humor, empa­thy, frus­tra­tion, tri­umph and heart­break. Anne Barn­hill writes eco­nom­i­cally, cleanly, and frankly and her words will go to the heart of every reader. From her pages I learned that endurance can be the most impor­tant com­po­nent of courage. And I learned in a most enter­tain­ing way.“
Fred Chap­pell, Bollin­gen Prize-winning author of I Am One of You Forever

“…a story that deserves a far brighter and higher billing than the kind of easy, happy, feel good non-fiction that often tops best-seller lists. This is because her story deals with those quiet hero­ics that many fam­i­lies and indi­vid­u­als face while they hide away in pain and mis­un­der­stand­ing. In fac­ing autism full on, Ms. Barn­hill has demon­strated how humans can love each other in unspeak­able ways, learn­ing lan­guages as well as con­tours of cer­tain rooms of the heart that some of us are never for­tu­nate enough to know.“
Clyde Edger­ton, pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­sity of North Car­olina Wilm­ing­ton, and author of Walk­ing Across Egypt

“In this book about cross­ing bar­ri­ers and mak­ing con­nec­tions, Anne Barn­hill gives us a vivid and wrench­ing account of her sister’s strug­gle with autism. It is a story of kin­ship, inti­macy and affec­tion, and one of the bar­ri­ers it breaks through is with the reader, con­nect­ing us with the pain and vic­to­ries of a life, a fam­ily.“
Robert Mor­gan, author of Gap Creek

“While the book is about Barnhill’s sis­ter, Becky, it is also a clas­sic coming-of-age story that reads with the sus­pense, and superb prose, of a ter­rific novel.“
The Greens­boro News and Record, reviewed by Steve Cushman

“It sounds odd to claim that AT HOME IN THE LAND OF OZ is a beau­ti­ful book about autism, but it’s just that—a story of love, for­ti­tude and infi­nite patience.“
The Pilot, reviewed by Stephen Smith

“I fell in love with Anne’s writ­ing and her fam­ily when I reviewed this book in June, but recently I was reminded of it again when I saw a seg­ment on CNN about Jeff Daly and his strug­gle to find his sis­ter Molly who was insti­tu­tion­al­ized in 1957 at the age of 3…I highly rec­om­mend this spe­cial sister’s mem­oir.“
The NC Autism Book­store, reviewed by Hope