The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night

 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night, by Mark Haddon.  This is the second time I am reading this book.  It definitely holds up to the test of time.  

This a wonderful story about a young boy, Christopher John Francis Boone, who is on the autism spectrum.  He is living with his father and his mother has left them.  The father led his son to believe that his mother is dead. The story opens with the boy going out at night and finding a dead dog in the neighbor's yard. 

We hear the story from the young child's point of view.  He talks in a very patterned tempo that is rhythmic and sounds like a young person on the spectrum.  He loves prime numbers.  It is an interesting cadence to the story that the author develops very well.

We follow him as he interacts with his father, who loves him, but is also suffering his own loss of his marriage.  We watch Christopher learn to interact with his neighbors and travel across London by himself, totally out of his comfort zone.  He is trying to find his mother.  He is writing a story about his adventures for his teacher at school.

We watch all the relationships unravel and then fall into place agin in a different order at the end.