I know–I’m a little late in posting this…but my book for March is Look Me in the Eye by John Elder Robison. It was on the “new” table at the library, and it looked intriguing–especially when I read the blurb on the author and discovered that I had also picked up a book by his brother (Augusten Burroughs) titled A Wolf at the Door.
I wondered why the two different names–and as I read, I realized that although they are brothers, they really were almost reared by two different families. Robison was the elder of the two, and the family was still pretty normal (more in a minute)–but his younger brother got the dysfunctional end of the stick!
While both of the books deal with some of the same time frame, the thing that interested me about Robison’s was that he has Asperger’s Syndrome, and his story tells what it was like being in his family from that perspective. “Look me in the eye” was a phrase he heard a lot, but it didn’t make sense to him as an Aspergerian (his phrase).
He does a marvelous job as a storyteller, but even more importantly for me, he shed light on what it’s like to live with an invisible disability that is so often misunderstood.
Well worth reading!
