“Extraordinary… Greenfeld details what it really is like to develop up next to a ‘beautiful’ guy with whom he can’t ever play rather than connect and who hardly ever returns his like, but who, non-etheless, is the most significant fact of his existence.”

– Michael Thompson, Ph.D., co-author of Raising Cain

“Beautiful and powerful …. A masterpiece of literature and memory.”

– Walter Isaacson, author of Einstein: His Life and Universe

“Gripping.”

– Washington Post

A WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD Ideal BOOK OF THE YEAR

In this literary tour de force, Karl Taro Greenfield, the acclaimed journalist and author of China Syndrome, tells the story of his life growing up with his brother, chronicling the hopes, dreams, and realities of life with an autistic sibling. Supporters of Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Considering and David Sheff’s Beautiful Boy will see many poignant, shifting moments in Guy Alone.