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For admirers of TheCurious Event of your dog in the Nighttime comes this landmark novel about autism, recollection, and, in the end, redemption. Sent to a "healing community" for autism at age 11, Todd Aaron, now in his '50s, is the "old fox" of Payton Living Centre. A joyous man who rereads the encyclopedia compulsively, he's unnerved by the quick arrivals of any menacing new staffer and a disruptive, brain-injured roommate. His equilibrium is further worsened by Martine, a one-eyed new citizen who has affectionate motives and convinces him to set off his meds to feel "normal" again. Undone by these stresses, Todd attempts a getaway to come back "home" to his more youthful brother and to a child years that now inhabits only his dreams. Written astonishingly in the first-person words of the autistic, adult man, Best Young man - using its memorable portraits of Todd's loved mother, whose sweet words still sings from the grave, and a staffer known as Raykene, who says that Todd shows the beauty of God's creation - is a piercing, achingly funny, finally shattering novel no listener can ever before forget.

Category: Family Life