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Thu Sep 25

John Elder Robison


Tel. 415.864.6777
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Books Inc.
2275 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94114 map
cross street: 16th St.
district: Cole Valley/Ashbury Heights

Thu Sep 25 (7:30PM)

Description
Best selling author John Elder Robison will be with us at Books Inc. in the Castro to read from his Autobiography "Look Me in the Eye".

Ever since he was young, John Robison longed to connect with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habits--an inclination to blurt out non sequiturs, avoid eye contact, dismantle radios, and dig five-foot holes (and stick his younger brother, Augusten Burroughs, in them)--had earned him the label "social deviant." It was not until he was forty that he was diagnosed with a form of autism called Asperger's syndrome. That understanding transformed the way he saw himself--and the world. A born storyteller, Robison has written a moving, darkly funny memoir about a life that has taken him from developing exploding guitars for KISS to building a family of his own. It's a strange, sly, indelible account--sometimes alien yet always deeply human.