Mr Bakopoulos's well-told debut novel is the first-person story of the coming-of-age of one of the sons, Michael Smolij (16 when his father vanished) and his friends.

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But the novel is written in the first person, making it pointless to try to keep track of anything resembling the truth.

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My first novel was recounted in the third person and described, with fair autobiographical fidelity, my growing up with an autistic brother.

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Blume and her son assured the audience that changes were made to preserve the film's narrative flow, which can be challenging in adapting a first-person novel.

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How does the tool kit of the novel, with its venerable elements of dialogue, landscape and plotting, persuasively present the first-person experience of someone who is overstimulated by the input of life and yet lacks the cognitive means to process and communicate it?

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