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Bad Animals: A Father's Accidental Education In Autism
Author(s): Joel Yanofsky (Author)
- Publisher: Penguin Canada
- Publication Date: April 3, 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 284 pages
- ISBN-10: 0143177192
- ISBN-13: 9780143177197
Book Description
While his wife, Cynthia, an art therapist, assumed the burden of researching ASD and investigating effective treatments for Jonah, Yanofsky tried other approaches. In this funny and moving account of a year in their life together, he chronicles his struggle to enter his son’s world using the materials he knows best: self-help books, feel-good memoirs, and literary classics ranging from the Old Testament to Dr. Seuss, as well as knock-knock jokes, riddles, and puns—all the wacky routines Yanofsky calls schtick.
Told with candour, insight, and compassion, Bad Animals is not only about autism; it’s about the things that make life worth living.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“If you want a highly readable, informative and, dare say, entertaining telling of what a family, and a marriage especially, goes through when hit with autism spectrum disorders, look no further.” – Winnipeg Free Press
“Joel Yanofsky has taken on just about the hardest of literary tasks, writing about life with an autistic child without succumbing either to sentimentality or bitterness—producing a book that seems both truthful, in its refusal to put too bright a face on a hard reality, and tender, in its insistence on the mysteries of love.” – Adam Gopnik, author of The Table Comes First and Paris to the Moon
Sardonically funny and heartfelt enough to draw tears, an immensely satisfying read for parents of disabled and non-disabled children alike…. A funny, deeply moving and refreshingly honest memoir of raising an autistic child. – Gazette (Montreal)
Writers … show their capacity for greatness when they point their talent at something they love. Joel Yanofsky has done just that: written a marvelous book about a child he adores—his son. – David Gilmour, author of THE FILM CLUB
