A Wild Ride Up the Cupboards by Ann Bauer (Scribner, September 2005) Rachel is a young mother with a handsome husband and a life she adores when suddenly her older son, Edward, withdraws from the world. By the age of four, he is mute and sleepless, stony and distant from everyone who loves him. But Rachel is determined to reach him by any means and bring him back home. A Wild Ride Up the Cupboards is a story about the extraordinary things a mother will do in order to help her child. It poses questions about what interventions and sacrifices are right—and which ones go too far. This novel also explores the role of faith in parenting, and in love. Braided through the story of Rachel and Jack's family is a parallel one about the events in her grandparents' lives: the early loss of their first-born child and subsequent withdrawal of Mickey, their only remaining son, whose mysterious death tested but did not destroy their union or their belief in God. While she looks for a way to heal her son, Rachel also searches for the truth about Mickey's life, trying desperately to save her son and her marriage.