by Mark Haddon
Review:
This is Mark Haddon's dark debut novel, about an autistic fifteen-year-old boy who tries to figure out a murder. Christopher John Francis Boone is mathematically gifted and a socially awkward teen, who cannot relate to any of his peers and is fascinated by adults. His mom dies and his father is left to raise him on his own, or at least that's what we are meant to think. I really enjoyed the beginning of this story, but felt the ending finished flat. It is worth the read, if you are in education or fascinated by people a little out of the ordinary.
