Summary

In Chapter XV, Li refers to two books about autism, Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant by Daniel Tammet and The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen Year-Old Boy with Autism by Naoki Higashida, translated by Keiko Yoshida and David Mitchell. Li does not explicitly state that James was diagnosed with autism, but she discusses how important these two books were to him. Li recalled that throughout James’s childhood, various people had urged them to do things like have James skip several grades at school or have a personally tailored education to suit his extraordinary intelligence, but they had always resisted these suggestions because they wanted him to have a normal childhood around other children of his own age.

In Chapter XVI, Li wonders why she is finding it harder...