Boy Alone · A Brother's Memoir
- Authors
- Greenfield, Karl Taro
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Tags
- personal memoirs , united states , family & relationships , people with disabilities , biography & autobiography , siblings , handicapped , people with mental disabilities , autistic children , psychopathology , psychology , children with special needs , social science , autism spectrum disorders , family relationships , biography , general
- ISBN
- 9780061136672
- Date
- 2009-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.41 MB
- Lang
- en
“Extraordinary… Greenfeld details what it is like to grow up next to a ‘beautiful’ boy with whom he can never play and never connect and who never returns his love, but who, nonetheless, is the most important fact of his life.”
— Michael Thompson, Ph.D., co-author of *Raising Cain*
“Beautiful and powerful …. A masterpiece of literature and memory.”
— Walter Isaacson, author of *Einstein: His Life and Universe*
“Gripping.”
— *Washington Post*
**A *WASHINGTON POST* BOOK WORLD BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR**
In this literary tour de force, Karl Taro Greenfield, the acclaimed journalist and author of *China Syndrome* , tells the story of his life growing up with his brother, chronicling the hopes, dreams, and realities of life with an autistic sibling. Fans of Joan Didion’s *The Year of Magical Thinking* and David Sheff’s *Beautiful Boy* will find many poignant, moving moments in *Boy Alone*.