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Fascinating and heartrending story of a boy with autism who unleashes a chain of events that unravel his own life when he sets about to find out who killed a neighbor's dog--told from the perspective of the boy himself.

It seemed to me that the book was an effort to imagine what it's like to experience the world as a person with autism. Regardless of its clinical accuracy, it succeeds in presenting the world from a very different perspective.

And the family, the boy's parents, are so very ordinary: dad's a plumber, mom's a secretary. They aren't the usual suburban, professional, well-educated couple replete with angst and resources. The one thing, the only thing, they share is a deep and abiding love for their son--a love they can't even express through normal human touch, even hand-holding, a love he cannot even understand, let alone return.

He has a favorite dream, in which a virus kills all the people in the world who look at other people's faces. The world that's left is a world with people "...who don't look at other people's faces...and I can go anywhere in the world and I know that no one is going to talk to me or ask me a question. ...And the way the surf comes up and over my shoes and then goes down again is in a rhythm, like music or drumming."