“The Amazing Adventures of Amanda” by LeeAnn Nicolaus
Amanda is a young woman with Downs Syndrome striving for independence. Set in the valley of a small Pennsylvania working class town, “The Amazing Adventures of Amanda” is a chronicle of Amanda’s dysfunctional family’s struggle to survive and stay together through poverty, addictions, and tragedy. It is the story of how Amanda copes with her reality and emerges as a strong, hopeful, witty and willful adult, always reaching for her dreams.