An uplifting memoir about a Harvard PHD student expecting a Down syndrome baby in the 90's. Colleagues in a high-achieving, perfection striving environment assume she will abort, but an unaccountable force compels her to keep Adam. I loved the author's wit and candor, she tells her story really well. This is laugh-out-loud funny but poignant and real at the same time. I found the use of the R-word jarring but maybe that was still ok in 1999.