Boy Alone: A Brother's Memoir, (Paperback)

from jeanie1

A brother is torn between his family and himself. Living in the shadow of his autistic brother, who gets more attention than he does. Love or hate? This book is very interesting and well written. So who is "boy alone," the author or his brother?

from theageofsilt

There is rivalry between most siblings. Especially, when one is exceptional. In Greenfeld's case, his brother, Noah, is exceptional in his autism - unable to speak, use the toilet unassisted, given to tantrums and hours in isolating rubber band twiddling and rocking. His family revolves around th...

from theageofsilt

There is rivalry between most siblings. Especially, when one is exceptional. In Greenfeld's case, his brother, Noah, is exceptional in his autism - unable to speak, use the toilet unassisted, given to tantrums and hours in isolating rubber band twiddling and rocking. His family revolves around th...

from phoenixcomet

In many ways, a heart-breaking story of a family devastated by the diagnosis of low-level autism in the late 1960s and a brother's recollection of what it was like trying to live in an abnormal household. The most moving piece of the book is where the author writes the story as if there was a mir...

from onefear

Very good, highly recommended; I especially appreciate his brutal honesty in describing life with a low-function sibling with autism. The book stands, refreshingly, in stark contrast to other books on autism that have a happy-clappy feeling and/or give a false sense of hope. To say anything more ...