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02184aam a2200373 i 4500 001 57AC0BAE79A311E7B502517097128E48 003 SILO 005 20220910012104 008 170213t20172016nyua 000 1 eng 010 $a 2017002703 020 $a 1468314726 020 $a 9781468314724 040 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PR6112.E775 $b S55 2017 082 00 $a 823/.92 $2 23 100 1 $a Lester, Jem, $e author. 245 10 $a Shtum : $b a novel / $c Jem Lester. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b The Overlook Press, $c 2017. 300 $a 313 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 520 $a "In this darkly funny and emotive debut, Ben Jewell has hit a breaking point. His profoundly autistic ten-year-old son, Jonah, has never spoken, and Ben and his wife Emma are struggling to cope. When Ben and Emma fake a separation--a strategic, yet ill-advised, decision to further Jonah's case in an upcoming tribunal to determine the future of his education--father and son are forced to move in with Georg, Ben's elderly and cantankerous father. In a small house in north London, three generations of men--one who can't talk; two who won't--are thrown together. As Ben confronts single fatherhood, he must battle a string of well-meaning social workers and his own demons to advocate for his son, learning some harsh lessons about accountability from his own father along the way. As the tribunal draws near, Jonah, blissful in his innocence, becomes the prism through which all the complicated strands of personal identity, family history, and misunderstanding are finally untangled."--Amazon.com. 650 0 $a Parents of autistic children $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Fathers and sons $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Autistic youth $v Fiction. 650 1 $a Fathers and sons $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Black humor (Literature) $2 gsafd. 655 7 $a Domestic fiction. $2 lcgft. 941 $a 5 952 $l GHPD771 $d 20210204022807.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006105159.0 952 $l MXPG943 $d 20180720045956.0 952 $l S1PD771 $d 20171229062010.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20170805010112.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=57AC0BAE79A311E7B502517097128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search