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When Horse Became Saw: A Family’s Journey through Autism by Anthony Macris

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May 2011, no. 331

When Horse Became Saw: A Family’s Journey through Autism by Anthony Macris

Viking, $32.95 pb, 307 pp

When Horse Became Saw: A Family’s Journey through Autism by Anthony Macris

by
May 2011, no. 331

In January this year the New York Times ran a controversial review article titled ‘The Problem with Memoirs’, in which staffer Neil Genzlinger praised ‘the lost art of shutting up’. He heaped scorn on ‘our current age of oversharing’ and on the accompanying glut of memoirs on every imaginable aspect of human experience. But he reserved particular scorn for what he identified as the latest trendy topic: ‘books by parents, siblings and teachers of people with autism.’ He advised, ‘If you’re jumping on a bandwagon, make sure you have better credentials than the people already on it.’

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