What a wonderfully terrifying book. The story took me a while to get into, although that was partially my own transition to somewhere where I could hear the main character's voice properly.
It was daring of Moon to take on the challenge of writing from the perspective of a high functioning autist and equally daring for her to write about the question of curing autism. To both in one novel, and do it well, is astounding. Yet she does it.
The way she writes Lou feels right, a glimpse into how someone who thinks differently than I do thinks.
And she asks all the right questions and provides very few easy answers. Questions of what it means to be normal and what it means to be happy lie somewhere around the center of the novel and Moon does us, and her characters, the courtesy of not-answering them.
This is a book that will make you think, in all the right ways.