Do You Think This Is Strange?

Shortlisted for the 2016 Amazon.ca First Novel Award Longlisted for the 2016 Leacock Medal for Humour Writing Winner of an Independent Publishers Book Award (IPPY) Seventeen-year-old Freddy is having a rough year. First, he is expelled from school for fighting. Now, at his new school, he is required to have regular conversations with a counselor�â�€�”an awkward situation for anyone, really, but even more so for Freddy, who has autism. But then Saskia�â�€�”a fair-haired girl who is non-verbal�â�€�”appears at his new school and his memories start to unravel. When they were children, Freddy and Saskia attended the same group therapy sessions, and he hasn't seen her in ten years. Now, not only does his unconventional relationship with Saskia provide him a place of respite in a difficult world, it sets a chain of meetings and events in motion that reveal a long-hidden family secret, and bring Freddy to a renewed understanding of his life and a freeing moment of truth. Telling a story that evokes The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon and The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion, this novel is both funny and moving.