Title: Bad animals
Description: A veteran book reviewer, Yanofsky has spent a lifetime immersed in literature (not to mention old movies and old jokes), which he calls shtick. This account of a year in the life of a family describes a father's struggle to enter his son's world, the world of autism, using the materials he knows best: self-help books, feel-good memoirs, literary classics from the Bible to Dr. Seuss, old movies, and, yes, shtick. Funny, wrenching, and unfailingly candid, Bad Animals is both an exploration of a baffling condition and a quirky love story told by the author.
Subjects: Family relationships, Autistic children, Canadian Authors, Parents of autistic children, Biography, Authors, canadian, Authors, biography
Places: Canada
People: Joel Yanofsky (1955-), Jonah Yanofsky
Time periods: 20th century