Through The Invisible Wall: A Mother’s Memoir

Alexis Allen has written something rare — a book that is once deeply personal and profoundly universal. Her voice is honest, her love is fierce, and her story will stay with you long after the last page.

A MOTHER'S MEMOIR

“Alexis Allen has written something rare — a book that is once deeply personal and profoundly universal. Her voice is honest, her love is fierce, and her story will stay with you long after the last page.”
— For every family walking this road

On February 8th, 2019, Alexis Allen walked into a specialist’s office as a mother—and walked out as an advocate.

What followed was not a single journey, but two. Two sons. Two diagnoses. One woman, navigating it all alone — armed with faith, ferocious love, and a whispered question that changed everything.

“Why not you?”

Through the Invisible Wall is the story of raising Jace and Jameer — two boys on the autism spectrum who are as different from each other as they are extraordinary. It is a story of routines that hold a family together, of meltdowns misunderstood by the world, of a school bus running late and an entire morning unraveling. Of noise-canceling headphones and chicken nuggets and shoes lined up in perfect order. Of hand gestures that mean
I love you even when the words won’t come.

THROUGH THE INVISIBLE WALL
Alexis Allen