在現代社會中，每一百個新生兒中平均就有一人是自閉兒。本小說作者Hannah Brown是位育有14歲自閉症兒子的母親，撰寫多本有關自閉題材的非文學和小說。在明年三月出版的新作《If I Could Tell You》中，她用小說手法寫下四位現代紐約母親教育自閉兒的生活故事，其中穿插不少專家建議的治療法。

小說敘述四位不同典型的紐約女人的生活──經營一家下城酒吧的前模特兒、擁有高權力的雜誌編輯、英文教授、物理治療師，她們四人加入一個為育有自閉症孩子的母親設立的團體。當她們共同面臨教養一個有特別需求的孩子的困境，又極力避免成為家中育有自閉兒的80%夫妻最後離婚的統計報告的犧牲者時，她們一起學習成長，用力量、愛、幽默和智慧來支持鼓舞彼此。

 

Hannah Brown is the mother of a 14-year-old boy with autism. A former movie critic for the New York Post, her short stories have appeared in Commentary, the Jerusalem Post Literary Quarterly and Short Story Quarterly. Her articles, reviews and essays have been published in Newsweek, New York, the Forward, Congress Monthly and the Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies. She has written both fiction and non-fiction about autism.