num_pages: 176
description: Taylor Jane Simon is an eighteen-year-old girl with Aspergers Syndrome who has a refreshingly different view of the people she encounters and the life she wants to have. Young adult readers will identify with Taylors struggle for independence and self-control and empathize as she outlines the waysboth positive and negative-- that her Aspergers Syndrome affects her daily life. Connecting with a play by Samuel Beckett Taylor explores a fear of solitary existence while reaching out to a world at times perplexing. Most important Taylor wants to be seen as an individual not as a stereotypical person with special needs or a rare wild flowerimages that haunt her from the past. A cameo performance by Taylors new gerbil -- Harold Pinter-- adds further emphasis to themes of existentialism and humour.
language: English
title: Waiting for No One
publisher: Red Deer Press