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Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism
Author: Ron Suskind
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ISBN: 9781484741238
Format: Paperback
Published: August 2016
Published By: Hachette Australia
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Published By: Hachette Australia
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Imagine being trapped inside a Disney movie and having to learn about life mostly from animated characters dancing across a screen of colour. A fantasy? A nightmare? This is the real-life story of Owen Suskind, the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind and his wife, Cornelia. An autistic boy who couldn't speak for years, Owen memorized dozens of Disney movies, turned them into a language to express love and loss, kinship, brotherhood.The family was forced to become animated characters, communicating with him in Disney dialogue and song; until they all emerge, together, revealing how, in darkness, we all literally need stories to survive.