Only Face Value.

The Curious Case of a Dog in the Nighttime was a book about a child who had no sense of social cues, due to autism.

And then he is LIED to. I hated that. The child had no concept of when folks were happy, sad, or otherwise, and he was lied to.  Because that's easy to do to a child who didn't even have a chance to pick up on it.  Or ask the right questions.

It was interesting to me that it was hard to tell about the socioeconomics or relationships of this child because neither of these things were important to him. Having an autistic narrator meant that the book had a lot of facts, but only the ones that he felt were relevant. And this child loved numbers, and other such things. He took his social environment entirely for granted. This made the setting hard to pin down.

I liked this book. I hadn't read anything from the perspective of a person with autism before,  and it was interesting to see how differently that they might view the world.  It's hard to know whether the book is entirely accurate to the mindset of autism, since it was written by a neurotypical person, but I think it was a very compelling read.