Ten year old Kieran Monk doesn’t like questions, is afraid to look people in the eye, and his best friend is a plastic Mr Incredible bobblehead that never leaves his hand.Nate Monk is Kieran’s father. He’s a single parent of a ‘differently wired’ child, a talented musician who once stood on the cusp of success, and a man resigned to a pragmatic life of responsibility over Ten year old Kieran Monk doesn’t like questions, is afraid to look people in the eye, and his best friend is a plastic Mr Incredible bobblehead that never leaves his hand.Nate Monk is Kieran’s father.
He’s a single parent of a ‘differently wired’ child, a talented musician who once stood on the cusp of success, and a man resigned to a pragmatic life of responsibility over opportunity.Both share the scarred aftermath of the Infernal Day. On a perfect Autumn April noon five and a half years before, wife and mother Felicity died saving her only child from a raging house fire. Although Kieran’s inadvertent hand was complicit in the tragedy, Nate refused to apportion blame. The tragic circumstances of the blaze, however, constituted a secret that a fearful father dared not share with his ‘different’ son.But today, as the burning forests of nearby Pendarra Hill fill the sky with smoke and the TV screen with concern, Kieran will discover the devastating truth. And driven by a desire to make amends for the ‘stupid little kid’ of half a decade before, he will disappear into the night.Now, Nate must search; not only the suburban streets and shops and backyards, but also the depths of his courage and spirit. He must come to terms with the past in order to defy a second tragedy and rekindle hope for a future dampened by doubt. He must be dauntless to do what needs to be done.
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He must be unflinching to go where his boy has gone:To the fire. For someone like me, who has such minimal experience & interactions with folks experiencing full spectrum autism, I found this a great book to get a new perspective. Groth has an autistic child & used his personal experiences to make this story realistic & painful. I think Kieran is handled well & I enjoyed his perspective throughout. The narrative is a simple one with much flashbacks from the frantic father to fill in the history that has lead to the events that form the primary For someone like me, who has such minimal experience & interactions with folks experiencing full spectrum autism, I found this a great book to get a new perspective. Groth has an autistic child & used his personal experiences to make this story realistic & painful. I think Kieran is handled well & I enjoyed his perspective throughout.
The narrative is a simple one with much flashbacks from the frantic father to fill in the history that has lead to the events that form the primary part of the plot.Unfortunately, I hate books filled with musical references. You can tell me the characters hum the chorus to 'Falling in Love' by The Twats or that special lyric in ' Up Your Way' by Sons of Sodom and it is truly meaningless to me.
Conversely, I would bore you stiff with that cool melodic progression that is used by Brahm's in his German Requiem and by Vaughn Williams in Sea Symphony: but really, the reading audience suddenly becomes very select when a writer employs such devices. So, to continue the novel, I ignored most of the music references or treated them like they were written in ancient Greek & where something I couldn't fully understand.I also found the middle of the book flat. I will blame my personal life during that period, rather than the author's flat writing.
For me, after page 150, the book picked up & I quickly consumed the narrative trying to determine the ending - nothing too untoward, but beautifully executed. This is a truly remarkable book.
There will undoubtedly be comparisons to but that does not make this book any less brilliant or important as's. It offers the same structure of an autistic boy and father without the presence of a mother figure.The relationship of father and son is beautifully drawn and each narrative (the book alternates between both) offers a wonderful insight it to the life of those who are affected by this 'differen This is a truly remarkable book.
There will undoubtedly be comparisons to but that does not make this book any less brilliant or important as's. It offers the same structure of an autistic boy and father without the presence of a mother figure.The relationship of father and son is beautifully drawn and each narrative (the book alternates between both) offers a wonderful insight it to the life of those who are affected by this 'different' obstacle. While I read this in a single sitting, this book will stay with me for some time.I have to admit to picking this up almost by accident and flicked to the first page for a skim-read, then promptly sat down and read the whole thing.This is the story of a father and son locked in a world determined by the son's autism and the tragedy of the mother's death.There are a lot of parallels to be drawn between this and 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'. Groth even discusses using this b While I read this in a single sitting, this book will stay with me for some time.I have to admit to picking this up almost by accident and flicked to the first page for a skim-read, then promptly sat down and read the whole thing.This is the story of a father and son locked in a world determined by the son's autism and the tragedy of the mother's death.There are a lot of parallels to be drawn between this and 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'. Groth even discusses using this book as inspiration in the author interview published in the back - as well as discussing his own experiences as the parent of a child on the autism spectrum.However while Haddon's book is suitable for young adult reading, I'm not sure whether this book would work as well with a young adult reader. The story is told in the alternating voices of Nate (the father) and Kieran (the son) - however even in the Kieran parts the reader ultimately understands much more of the situation than the boy (which is what made Haddon's book so intriguing.)It's interesting that the Groth family moved from Australia to Canada due to the poor services available here - now made even less certain in the last six months with the change of government. Darren Groth is a Vancouver author and citizen of Canada, having moved from his native Australia in 2007.
His novels include 'Kindling' and the acclaimed YA works, 'Are You Seeing Me?' And 'Munro vs. His newest release, penned with younger brother Simon Groth, is the fabulist novella, 'Infinite Blue'.Darren was the recipient of the 2016 Adelaide Festival Award for Young Adult Literat Darren Groth is a Vancouver author and citizen of Canada, having moved from his native Australia in 2007. His novels include 'Kindling' and the acclaimed YA works, 'Are You Seeing Me?' And 'Munro vs. His newest release, penned with younger brother Simon Groth, is the fabulist novella, 'Infinite Blue'.Darren was the recipient of the 2016 Adelaide Festival Award for Young Adult Literature and has been a finalist in numerous other prestigious prizes including the CBCA Book of the Year (Australia), the Prime Minister's Literary Awards (Australia), the Governor General's Literary Awards (Canada) and the BC Book Prizes (Canada).For fun, he watches 'American Ninja Warrior' with his beautiful Canadian wife and eats at Fatburger with his wondrous teen twins.