A finalist for a 2006 National Magazine Award, Hamilton Cain is the author of the forthcoming This Boy's Faith, which Crown/Random House will publish in April. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York.
When Hamilton Cain’s son—who suffers from Spinal Muscular Atrophy—needed a therapeutic bed, a backflipping former dancer from the movie Hair saved the day.
“What we had was unspoken: a richer bond, exponentially greater than the sum of our parts. … Arms around each other, we peered heavenward and wondered what it was all about.”