There's more than one way home

By Donna Levin

Subjects: Mothers of autistic children, Fiction, Mothers of autistic children -- Fiction

Description: MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FICTION (POST C 1945). Anna Kagen seems to have it all: She's young, beautiful, and married to a wealthy, prominent man. But within the walls of her San Francisco mansion, she spends her time dodging her husband's barbs and hunting down potential friends for her son, Jack, a 10-year-old on the autistic spectrum. That old life suddenly seems idyllic when, on a school field trip, she makes the small error in judgment that sets in motion a chain of events that leads to another boy's death. Suddenly Jack is a suspect, her husband's career is in jeopardy, and Anna has to choose between loyalty to her son ... and what may be her one chance at happiness.