Risas al punto de sal

What does a comedian, whose job is to make people laugh, do when she comes home and has to get her daughter with autistic disorder to just look at her? The comedian Raquel Sastre narrates in this tremendously emotional book her experience as Emma's mother, diagnosed at a year and a half with Phelan-McDermid syndrome, a genetic disease that causes intellectual disability and lack of language. Risas al punto de sal is a confessional story devoid of drama about how to face adversity from the moment you know that your daughter suffers from a disease that will make her dependent forever and how humor becomes an indispensable tool to survive the new reality . A story of hope that brims with vitality and an exercise in courage that vindicates the importance of early care, thanks to which Emma can today communicate and look into the eyes.