The book’s major themes —of love, of culture, of reverence—are also suggested in two pieces of art. The painting on the cover shows the head of a young woman in profile; she is swaddled by colorful bedclothes. In the final pages we learn that this is 20-year-old Temma, daughter of Tim and Sherrie Lowly and that Tim is the artist. Volck came to know this family through the art. He is not the doctor to Temma, although he has treated other similar children. While Temma would be medically styled as “profoundly disabled,” Volck sees her as “broken and beautiful, damaged and dignified” (pp. 184, 185). The second image is the black-and-white frontispiece (p. vii). It shows Temma lying on her back and carried by six women described as “a community lightly bearing her” (p. 185). Volck comments, “My profession…habitually defines conditions and states by what a person lacks rather than what she is” (p. 184).