![]() ![]() ![]() and Canada in Blaine, at the top left corner of Washington State. ![]() ![]() He is incapable of “posing.” His dad runs a failing dairy farm, his mom has early Alzheimer’s, and they live on the ill-defined border between the U.S. In fact, he has much in common with the boy in Francisco Stork’s Marcelo in the Real World, who has Asperger’s.īrandon is 6’8” tall, socially and physically awkward, and he rocks back and forth and gets his words backwards when he is nervous (which is basically most of the time when he is not alone). Although the main character, Brandon Vanderkool, is twenty-three, I would also consider this another coming of age book: Brandon is dyslexic and it is likely he has Asperger’s Syndrome his development has been slower than other people’s. In Border Songs, Lynch again tackles similar themes with a boy who pays attention, a girl he loves, and the incredible diversity of Mother Nature’s progeny. And if so, what do you think it’s saying?” Miles hesitated and replied, “It’s probably saying, ‘ Pay attention.’” There is a passage in The Highest Tide in which a reporter asks the young protagonist Miles why it is that he’s always finding things no one else does: “Because I’m always looking … and there are so many things to see.” The reporter continues: “So, maybe… when you found that squid, maybe the earth is trying to tell us something. I loved Jim Lynch’s first novel, a coming of age story about a boy, a girl, and the creatures of the sea, called The Highest Tide. ![]()
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