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Gottlieb's prize-winning 1997 debut novel, The Boy Who Went Away, told the complex, heartbreaking story of a family struggling to raise an autistic child. By the end of the story, it becomes clear that the family will have to institutionalize their young son. In some important ways, Gottlieb's powerful and engaging new work—also about autism—is a sequel to that first book. The narrator is an autistic man, Todd Aaron, who has been l...Log In or Sign Up to Read More