Doubleday
New York - (c)2003 - 226pp
ISBN: 0-385-51210-4
An autistic boy writes a book about his search for a killer (of a dog), and the discoveries that he makes along the way.
A very interesting book, as it gets in to the head of an autisitc boy, explaining the reasoning behind many of his actions. Some of the best description comes when he describes how he shuts down, sort of like when you press CTRL + ALT + DEL on the computer when he gets an information overload. His chapters are sequential, not 1,2,3 but lowest to highest, all prime numbers. He is a math genius and math plays a lot in to the book, yet done in such a way that even a math-loathesome person such as myself can get through it it. I can see where this book might win a great many prizes for its subject matter and it's handling of the information. However, I never really felt drawn in to the book. Certainly this is because of who is telling the story and how he (an admittedly unemotional person) does it. But by keeping my at arms length, even in the book, I couldn't feel the attachment to it that I would like when reading a book.
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