The Girl He Used to Know by Tracey Garvis Graves
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This untraditional love story toggles between 1991 and 2001 in telling the tale of Annika and Jonathan. Their romance begins as a meeting of minds over a game of chess, which is an irony given how very differently their brains work; she struggles with routines of daily life, forgetful and easily overwhelmed by sounds and smells and other sensations, lost when it comes to reacting to social cues and norms, and will completely retreat and close down when things are too hard, which is often. The affable Jonathan has never struggled to make friends and fit in and realizes without Annika naming her condition specifically that she has autism but battles daily to be independent in a busy, loud world. A very interesting and wonderfully told story, insightful and different.
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