![]() Marcelo's father wanted Marcelo to get a taste of the real world, so he had him work in his law office for the summer. As I read, I kept wondering if the author was accurately portraying Marcelo, a young man with Aspberger's. Having the main character refer to himself in third person as well as his referring to his parents by their first names took some getting used to. ![]() "This book took awhile to get into, but it finished strong. Reminiscent of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time in the intensity and purity of its voice, this extraordinary audiobook is a love story, a legal drama, and a celebration of the music each of us hears inside. But it’s a picture he finds in a file–a picture of a girl with half a face–that truly connects him with the real world: its suffering, its injustice, and what he can do to fight. He learns about competition and jealousy, anger and desire. to join “the real world.” There Marcelo meets Jasmine, his beautiful and surprising coworker, and Wendell, the son of another partner in the firm. But his father has never fully believed in the music or Marcelo’s differences, and he challenges Marcelo to work in the mailroom of his law firm for the summer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Marcelo Sandoval hears music that nobody else can hear–part of an autism-like condition that no doctor has been able to identify. ![]()
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