Melody Murray's Books

We went to see Robison at Powell's and he was such an engaging speaker that I decided I'd best read his book. I'm glad I did. He's a good writer, wiping the film off of the window between the putatively normal and the Aspergian world. Robison mines his interesting life for anecdotes and comes up with some doozies. My favorite part of the book, though, is his description of fatherhood. It's dead-on but so brutally honest that it's hilarious. F'rinstance, this bit from the hospital where the baby was born: "I made sure he was tagged with a nylon serial number plate on a ring around his leg before I allowed him to be released into the general population of hatchlings. They had a big room where all the babies lay behind glass and grew under heat lamps, just like the baby chick display at the State Fair. Some were in incubators but most were just on trays."Recommended.