Autism Books That Don’t Necessarily Say They Are

A British government policy advisor with a doctorate in philosophy revisits the New York City school. A novelist recalls the sooty Hartford housing project she grew up in with her extended French-Italian family. The author of an environmental memoir about life in the Pine Barrens of southern New Jersey reflects on mental “disabilities,” including her own manic depression. A major poet writes “short talks” the manner of Gertrude Stein’s prose poems.

All of these books discuss autism. (And one is by an autistic author.)

And all say something about autism that you won’t find in Autism 101.

She cannot quite hear what the doctor is saying it is a large grey cheerful woman its language is boomings beckonings boulders boasts boomerangs bowler hats. Brother? (from Short Talks)