Description

An Unexpected Life tells the story of how one mother s perseverance, love, and faith helped her autistic son blossom into an extraordinary artist. After Seth Chwast was diagnosed with autism at a young age, his mother, Debra, initially denied the harsh reality. But even after the truth sank in, she did not give up on her son, always believing – often in the face of expert opinion – that Seth had special gifts as well as special needs. When he turned twenty, an oil-painting class unlocked a talent no one could have suspected: her son, who rarely speaks, and cannot cross the street by himself, was an artistic genius, eager to speak to the world through his joyful paintings and sculptures.