Eye Contact, Cammie McGovern
Eye Contact, Cammie McGovern
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Eye Contact

Author: Cammie McGovern

Narrator: Julia Fletcher

Unabridged: 9 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/22/2006

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

A nine-year-old autistic boy is discovered hiding near the body of his murdered classmate. Barely able to communicate on the best of days, the experience of witnessing the murder leaves him unable to explain what he saw or heard. It's up to his mother to reach her traumatized son—both to help him heal and to help the police catch the killer.

About Cammie McGovern

Cammie McGovern was awarded a creative writing fellowship at Stanford University and has received numerous prizes for her short fiction. Her stories have appeared in many magazines, including Glamour, Ladies Home Journal, Redbook, and Seventeen. She is the author of the novels The Art of Seeing and Eye Contact. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with her husband and three children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mariah Roze on August 10, 2016

This book went in waves of being good and confusing. Also, a little unrealistic at parts. Throughout the whole book I struggled because the chapters were extremely long and the book is from multiple point of views. That's not a great combination. I had a hard time keeping everyone straight. Eventuall......more

Goodreads review by Rachel (TheShadesofOrange) on May 04, 2021

4.0 Stars This was such a compelling story that more about the mother son relationship than the murder mystery. Although I cannot comment on the representation, I found the exploration of the Autism spectrum to be fascinating. I would recommend this one to readers who enjoy mysteries with well drawn......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth on October 19, 2013

This book was amazing, the very description of a thriller. Little clues were in the entire body of the book, and putting them together on the journey through the book was simultaneously exhilarating and chilling. The characters felt incredibly real and the revelation on the last page was genuinely s......more

Goodreads review by Alana on May 31, 2014

I had a real problem with the storyline of Kevin and how it was resolved. With the intention to manipulate and hurt Cara, he actually forges a plan which involves lying about a relationship with her best friend, doesn't come forward about the murder of a little girl or the (utterly pointless) fact t......more