Time of the locust : a novel /
Morowa Yejide.
- First Atria books hardcover edition.
- x, 242 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
" . . . 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"--
Autistic children--Family relationships--Fiction. Children of prisoners--Fiction. Fathers and sons--Fiction. Murder--Fiction. Retribution--Fiction. Redemption--Fiction.