Mockingbird is a small YA novel with a lot of topics crammed into it. It's written in the voice of a young girl with Asperger's syndrome whose mother died plus her brother was just shot in a Columbine type shooting. That's a lot of stuff going on. It's an earnest attempt to show how literal and un-empathetic people can be who suffer from the disease. But it is a tad too earnest and fraught with MESSAGES. If I were a Young Adult I would feel condescended to. It has a layer of smarminess that is off putting.
The Curious Incident of a Dog in the Night told the autism story much better. Read That Not This.
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