The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night is a brilliantly structured novel for adolescents which touches on complex issues such as difference and being an outsider. Although the novel never explicitly refers to Aspergers or the autism spectrum it is inferred that the main character Christopher John Francis Boone is on the spectrum. His higher level of thinking, focus on particular things and his obsessions are described with such detail that you are apart of them. Although I do not usually like books narrated in the first person I found this to be enthralling.
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