How to live happily hair-free? Advice from a whimsical new children’s book

Four years ago, Prince William County, Virginia, resident Sharlay Field’s son suddenly started losing his hair.

He was just a toddler at the time and his puzzling diagnosis was a new one for the family.

“We found out that he had alopecia, and we didn’t know anything about it,” Fields said. “Most of the time it’s hereditary. But in our case, it isn’t. It was a shock for us because we didn’t have it on either side.”

Her son, Horace, has an autoimmune disease that causes complete hair loss, also called alopecia universalis.