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Cammie McGovern, author of Eye Contact - our blogger for the week of 8/13

Sat, 08/11/2007

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Cammie McGovern is our guest blogger during the week of August 13th. If you have any questions for Cammie McGovern, add a comment to any of her posts. Here is some brief information about Eye Contact:

"In the tradition of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Cammie McGovern delivers a compelling murder mystery that intrigues as much by what it hides as by what it so deftly reveals—the stark, poignant, deeply intimate moments in the lives of people living with autism and those who love them."—Patricia Stacey, author of The Boy Who Loved Windows

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.

About Cammie McGovern

Cammie McGovern was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford and received the Nelson Algren Award in short fiction. Her work has been published in Redbook, Seventeen, Glimmer Train, TriQuarterly, and other publications. This is her second novel.