THE MIND TREE: A Miraculous Child Breaks the Silence of Autism
Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay, . . Arcade, $21.95 (224pp) ISBN 978-1-55970-699-5
Now 15 years old, the Bengali boy known as "Tito" wrote the texts collected in this book between the ages of eight and 11. That fact would be remarkable in itself, given their exquisite beauty and concision in describing the world of their author ("the cobweb of uncertainty remained"), but Tito's severe autism, diagnosed when he was three, makes them little short of miraculous. Tito's mother Soma taught him to write in Bengali and in English by working with him intensively over years. While there have been skeptics of Tito's writing ability (as documented in
Reviewed on: 10/13/2003
Genre: Nonfiction
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