The Ride Together A Brother and Sister's Memoir of Autism in the Family

We looked like a cup of human fruit cocktail dumped onto the top of the house, each piece different but all out of the same can.So begins a book unlike any other, half comics and half text, about a family that lives with autism -- and the strange life that is ordinary to them.The oldest son, David, recites Superman episodes as he walks around the living room. A late-night family poker game spirals into a fog-driven duel. A thug from an old black-and-white rerun crawls out of the television. A housekeeper transforms into an avenging angel. A broken plate signals a terrible change in the family that none of them can prevent...until it's too late.This groundbreaking work was excerpted inThe New York Timesfor its ability to honestly, eloquently, and respectfully set forth what life is like with autism in the family. What setsThe Ride Togetherapart is its combination of imagination and realism -- its vision of a family's inner world -- with David at the center.

Judy Karasik was for years a book editor. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review and The Boston Globe Magazine, among many others. She lives with her family in Tuscany and Maryland Paul Karasik studied at the School of Visual Arts. A former associate editor of the seminal review RAW, he is also an educator, and the cocreator of the prize-winning graphic adaptation of Paul Auster's City of Glass. His work has appeared in The New Yorker and Nickelodeon magazine. He lives on Martha's Vineyard with his family