I finally read the book over this past (extremely busy) weekend. It's written in the voice of a brilliant 15 year old autistic boy.
This is from the book jacket: Christopher knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched.
If you know of anyone on the autism spectrum - from aspergers on - you will love, and learn from, this book. I could personally relate to Christopher because numbers calm me as well.
And the book is very, very funny.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was this month's pick for my book club. Yesterday we discussed it. All but a couple of people loved it and the discussion was rich. There were 20 women in the room. Nine of them shared that they had grandchildren or other close relatives with some form of autism. I found this to be astounding.
***
