![]() ![]() "Please, please don't make the mistake of passing up the book if it feels familiar––because it is astonishing, both in its content and its triumph over form. "Brown combines a reporter's curiosity with a novelist's instinctive feel for the unknowable in this exquisite book, an account at once tender, pained and unexpectedly funny." The New York Times Review WINNER OF THE CHARLES TAYLOR PRIZE FOR CANADIAN NON-FICTION WINNER OF THE CHARLES TAYLOR PRIZE FOR LITERARY NON-FICTION "All I really want to know is what goes on inside his off-shaped head," he writes, "But every time I ask, he somehow persuades me to look into my own." In a book that owes its beginnings to Brown's original Globe and Mail series, he sets out to answer that question, a journey that takes him into deeply touching and troubling territory. But if Walker is so insubstantial, why does he feel so important? What is he trying to show me?" "Sometimes watching him," Brown writes, "is like looking at the man in the moon- but you know there is actually no man there. ![]() ![]() ![]() Walker turns twelve in 2008, but he weighs only 54 pounds, is still in diapers, can't speak and needs to wear special cuffs on his arms so that he can't continually hit himself. Walker Brown was born with a genetic mutation so rare that doctors call it an orphan syndrome: perhaps 300 people around the world also live with it. ![]()
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