At yesterday's session of Literary Lunches, Tori Johnson, director of special education for Grand Forks Public Schools, read from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, a book whose narrator is Christopher John Francis Boone, a 15-year-old boy with autism. She prefaced her reading by not only talking how some people with autism have difficulty reading facial expressions, but also by saying, "When you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism."
In Johnson's selection, Boone discovers the corpse of a dog on a pitch fork. The police arrive. It's then we get a glimpse into Boone, who notices even the slightest detail about the police.
Johnson also read an excerpt from The Last Lecture by the late Randy Rausch. The excerpt candidly focuses on how whining doesn't help people. And Johnson concluded with work by the poet Maya Angelou.
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