Eye Contact

Like The Lovely Bonesand The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Cammie McGovern’s breakout novel is at once a hypnotic thriller and an affecting portrait of people as real as our next-door neighbors. In Eye Contact, two children vanish in the woods behind their elementary school. Hours later, nine-year-old Adam is found alive, the sole witness to his playmate’s murder. But because Adam has autism, he is a silent witness. Only his mother, Cara, can help decode his behavior for the police. As the suspense ratchets, Eye Contactbecomes a heart-stopping exploration of the bond between a mother and a very special child.

Cammie McGovern was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and has won numerous awards for her short fiction. She is the author of one previous novel, The Art of Seeing.