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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780802143709
ISBN number: 0802143709
Label: Grove Press
Manufacturer: Grove Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 336
Printing Date: June 10, 2008
Publishing house: Grove Press
Sale Popularity Level: 552511
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This is an exquisite debut novel about a family in turmoil, told in the startling, deeply affecting voice of a nine-year-old, autistic boy. Following the sudden death of Sebby’s mother, his father takes Sebby to live in the family’s summerhouse, hoping it will give them both time and space to recover. But Sebby’s father deteriorates in this new isolation, leaving Sebby struggling to understand his mother’s death alone, dreaming and even reliving moments of her life. He ultimately reaches out to a favorite teacher back home and to two nearby children who force him out of the void of the past and help him to exist in the present. In spare and gorgeous prose buoyed by the life force of its small, fearless narrator, Up High in the Trees introduces an astonishingly fresh and powerful literary voice.
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I found it difficult to warm to or become interested in the young autistic narrator of this book and his first-person presentation of sensory details. There simply wasn't enough of a plot here to keep me engaged and I abandoned the book at page 46. Mark Haddon's Strange Incident this is not. I read enough of Up High in the Trees to feel sure that Ms. Brinkman has talent and sensitivity, but I tend to wonder if the short story might not have been a better form for her. For those of you who need a story, not just the view from under the table or up in the trees, I would suggest borrowing the book from the library rather than purchasing it. Though the short chapters, many only a page each, give the reader the sense of moving along at quite a clip, I was essentially 1/6 of the way through the book without feeling that anything significant was happening, and I frankly didn't want to stay in the head of this particular narrator for another 250 pages. Too many other good books. Again: there was not enough going on to engage this reader--hence the low score. There is something to be said for writers who have stories to tell and plots to unfold.
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I don't know much about Autism. I don't think putting a label on the psychic condition of a child tells us much about what's actually happening in his mind. However, this poetic novel provides real insight into the soul of a unique child through simple observation. It's spare prose illuminates the reader like an image glimpsed in a flash of distant lightning. There is no bludgeoning with over-wrought emotion. There is only the cunning invitation to reach out and touch the lives of these very real people in a moment of personal tragedy. This is a beautiful novel.
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Kiara Brinkman's writing is as clean, crisp, and powerful as the finest vodka drank straight up. A gulp or two and you're delirious for more!
Powerful stuff!
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I enjoyed reading the actual book, but I kept expecting to see the word Autism or Asperger's mentioned. I am the grandmother of a 5-year old boy with autism/asperger's syndrome, who I spend a lot of time with. If I didn't know about autism, I probably would have missed the point in the book and thought this was just a strange, loveable little kid who went through a horrible tragedy of losing his mother. His father knowing of Sebby's austistic difficulties made no real endeavor to nuture his son until the end of the book. Sure, he had his own grief, but he was an educated individual, well schooled in living with an autistic. Besides, I believe that the autistic "teach us" in their own way and this might have given the father relief from his own grief, through his autistic child.
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This book is about depression and overcoming grief. It is very dark and not worth the money. Brinkman does a huge disservice to the Autism Community by including a character with autism without fully understanding what is involved with ASD. Perhaps she thought using the word autism would help sell more books, since it is a hot topic right now? If you are interested in reading about how a family with a child who displays some autistic tendencies overcomes their issues, then I recommend, The Boy who Loved Windows.
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