A deeply imaginative debut novel about a family in crisis, Time of the Locust "deftly brings together the fantastic and the realistic, and touches on a variety of issues, from politics, race, and murder to disability, domestic tragedy, and myth... and] spins them with gold and possibility" (The Washington Post). Sephiri is an autistic boy who lives in a world of his own making, where he dwells among imagined sea creatures that help him process information in the "real world" in which he is forced to live. But lately he has been having dreams of a mysterious place, and he...
A deeply imaginative debut novel about a family in crisis, Time of the Locust "deftly brings together the fantastic and the realistic, and touc...