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Eye Contact

McGovern, Cammie. Book - 2006 None on shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4 out of 5

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eye contact submitted by hcf on July 28, 2014, 11:04am novel about autism

Fairly Good submitted by Avliss on August 3, 2017, 1:27pm I was a little leery of reading this text, since the typical autism narrative seems to be "oh, my son is a genius locked in an unresponsive body, I must break though to save him." However, I was pleasantly surprised by McGovern - she was sensitive to the disorder without being wishy-washy about it, and was able to craft a complex and realistic mystery.

My one complaint was that the book got confusing at times - there wasn't any obvious sign-posting when switching between past and present, and there were a lot of POV shifts. I had to read this book twice and actually write down the sequence of events before I really "got it".

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PUBLISHED
New York : Viking, c2006.
Year Published: 2006
Description: 290 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0670037656

SUBJECTS
Autistic children -- Fiction.
Girls -- Crimes against -- Fiction.