Boy Alone, Karl Taro Greenfeld
Boy Alone, Karl Taro Greenfeld
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Boy Alone
A Brother's Memoir

Author: Karl Taro Greenfeld

Narrator: William Dufris

Unabridged: 12 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 12/30/2011

Synopsis

“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.

About Karl Taro Greenfeld

Karl Taro Greenfeld is the author of seven previous books, including the novel Triburbia and the acclaimed memoir Boy Alone. His award-winning writing has appeared in Harper's Magazine, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, Best American Short Stories 2009 and 2013, and The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012. Born in Kobe, Japan, he has lived in Paris, Hong Kong, and Tokyo, and currently lives in Pacific Palisades, California, with his wife, Silka, and their daughters, Esmee and Lola.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dean

Greenfeld has written a powerful, maddening book, pitting sentences that are a joy to read against a raw honesty that is almost impossible to accept. It is a work of philosophy as endurance contest. The story of his profoundly autistic younger brother, Noah, is a descent by degrees, the deterioratio......more

Goodreads review by Thais

Di solito i libri sugli autistici sono narrati dai loro genitori e raccontano di bambini che, crescendo, fanno qualche progresso o a volte escono miracolosamente dal loro guscio. Oppure le loro storie si fermano all'adolescenza, perché i ragazzini non sono ancora cresciuti e il loro futuro si può s......more

Goodreads review by Lara

I asked my pals at HarperCollins for this book because I used to babysit (in college) for two brothers, and one was autistic while the other was not. Although I was a bit on-again/off-again with my interest level on this book, I mostly found it fascinating and heartbreaking...and guilt-inducing, sin......more

Goodreads review by Melissa

Every parent or adult sibling of an autistic person should read this book. Anyone who enjoys brave, raw, honest memoirs should read this book. Greenfeld voices some of autism's dirty little secrets and, though he doesn't really have any answers, it's time someone asked these questions.......more

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