29 March 2010

Marcelo in the Real World

Marcelo in the Real World is a work of fiction written in the first person present by Francisco Stork, a winner of the Junior Library Guild Schneider Family Book Awards. The title character is Marcelo, a seventeen-year-old with high functioning autism. Marcelo's father, who does not "believe" in his son's condition, sends him to work in the mailroom of his law firm one summer to expose him to "the real world." There Marcelo encounters mysteries, intrigue and romance.

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