Fadiman notes these books, in particular, to be of related interest: Life as We Know It by Michael Bérubé; Aman: Story of a Somali Girl by Virginia Barnes Lee; The Deep Green Sea by Robert Olen Butler; Monkey Bridge by Lan Cao; Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports from My Life with Autism by Temple Grandin; My Brother by Jamaica Kincaid; Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston; The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks; When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago; Is There No Place on Earth for Me? by Susan Sheehan; and My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story by Abraham Verghese.
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