Time of the locust

By Morowa Yejide

Subjects: Autistic children, Fathers and sons, Children of prisoners, Retribution, Crime, fiction, Fathers and sons, fiction, Murder, Fiction, Family relationships, Redemption, Fiction, psychological

Description: ". . . A novel about an autistic boy whose drawings represent something much deeper than even the doctors who study can grasp; his father, serving 25 to life for murder; his mother, trying to hold herself together and fix her broken child. It's a supernatural journey of crime and punishment, retribution and redemption that ultimately leads to a father saving his son, a mother connecting with her child, and an American family reclaiming itself"--