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Read Cammie McGovern's posts on the Penguin Blog
Like The Lovely Bones and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Cammie McGovern's breakout novel is at once a hypnotic thriller and an affecting portrait of people as real as our next-door neighbors. In Eye Contact, two children vanish in the woods behind their elementary school. Hours later, nine-year-old Adam is found alive, the sole witness to his playmate's murder. But because Adam has autism, he is a silent witness. Only his mother, Cara, can help decode his behavior for the police. As the suspense ratchets, Eye Contact becomes a heart-stopping exploration of the bond between a mother and a very special child.
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Barbara Liebl
reviewed Eye Contact on March 09, 2008
Eye Contact
It was all right, but kind of frustrating. I had pretty significant issues with the plot. Her knowledge of autism and ability to incorporate that into fiction is excellent, and her writing for Adam is the highlight of the book by far. The book is interesting and emotional and creepy at times.
I also appreciate the "strain of being a caregiver" theme that is present throughout the book through Cara, Suzette, Teddy, Kevin's mom, Morgan's mom, Olivia, Chris's mom, Harrison's mom, even Cara's parents to an extent.
However: the plot. The author tries to make it suspenseful by introducing one suspect after another, only to discount them and move onto someone else. It was Morgan! No, it was Chris! It was Bob Busker, Kevin, Kevin's mom. And then it turns out to be... some random bully? Who didn't even know Amelia? And who ends up confessing because he's sick of his mom defending him? What? And how many different people were in the freaking woods during the 45 minutes that Adam and Amelia were missing?
And there were all these dramatic references to Cara's past, and some terrible thing that happened between her and Suzette and Kevin that left them all isolated and messed up. Except in the end, not that much actually happened. And Kevin's wacky mom not only falsely confesses to the murder because she thinks that Kevin is guilty, but also suggests that he's responsible for the car accident that killed Cara's parents. Only he isn't, he was just driving behind them? What the hell?
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