Contents

I THE MYSTERY

1 Is That Your Kid?

2 The Boy Who Changed Everything

3 The Check

4 Evaluating Kai

5 The Suspicion

6 San Francisco

7 The Cobra

8 The Fox

9 Lynda Sees It First

II THE HUNT

1 Powerless

2 Saved from the Wastebasket

3 Kamila, the Astronaut

4 A Strange Boy

5 Doubt

6 Don’t Cross That Line

7 Back in the Land of the Special People

8 Tania Can’t See It

9 Last Chance

10 The Tree

III UNDERSTANDING

1 How Kai Saw the World

2 What Have We Done?

3 No Window Seat?

4 Counterintuitive

5 Letters

6 Building a Brain

7 Fighting with Colleagues

8 Monica Is Crying

9 Pioneers and Child Prodigies

10 Great Expectations

11 Needed

12 Beloved Kai

Acknowledgments