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Chapter 1 in her journal sixteen year old miranda evans is counting down until her sophomore year of high school ends and summer vacation begins but in the meantime she has tests fights with her mom and friendship drama. American author michael berubes memoir life as we know it a father a family and an exceptional child 1996 chronicles berubes experience raising a child with down syndrome according to the new york times life as we know it is an astonishingly good book important literate and ferociously articulated. Life as we knew it is the harrowing tale of a family trying to survive in a dystopian post apocalyptic world a young adult novel the story is told from the point of view of sixteen year old miranda and takes the form of her journal entries. Life as we knew it explores what happens to an ordinary family in a normal american town when their world changes forever an asteroid hits the moon knocking it into a closer orbit this causes all kinds of disasters that bring the world to a halt