The book tells the story of seventeen-year-old John, who suffers from autism. His parents see the good in him, but the surrounding world only sees his faults.
John often made mistakes and always misunderstood things. He tries to fulfill the requests of the people around him to gain their satisfaction.
It is a tough period of development, bordering on isolation and difficulties at school.
John falls into the trap of his rivals and commits aggressive acts that lead him to decline.
But who bears John's fate?
Animal Friends is a poignant and transparent novel about isolation and vulnerability. Depicts the nostalgia and connections that can bind vulnerable people to each other.
The horizons of storytelling integrate like small overlapping circles, forming a tight narrative world.
"My gift for your birthday":
Christmas comes and our children are getting older, more mature, and more demanding. On this occasion, in particular, many mothers and fathers are confused about choosing the type of gift, its size, and its value. They often resort to buying “ordinary” gifts that may not live up to the highest meaning of the gift, which is to communicate to the child how important he is in our lives and how much we care about him.
Christmas has arrived, and here the hero of the story is wondering about the most precious gift he can give to his child, and here he is wondering in a beautiful monologue about the most precious gift that can be given to his child... so he begins to include a list of gifts that he considers to be the most expensive, between the possible and the impossible, the strangest and the most beautiful... to conclude that the best gift that can be given It is within his reach, as it is within the reach of every mother or father, and it is time.
A text that teaches the child as well as the parents that the value of the gift is not in money, but in the amount of time and love in which we share our daily interests between laughter, play, and seriousness..
Illustrator: Artist Amir Alaei - Iran - works for magazines and specialized publishing houses and is a painter and graphic designer.
Rabbits emerge from jacket sleeves, a car fixes a shed instead of a pole, and medical cotton speaks and makes sounds; These are some of the daily observations mixed with audio-visual hallucinations, narrated by a young drug addict, through a group of separate, connected short stories that describe the image of a world in which wakefulness and sleep are mixed, and reality and imagination.
In these stories, everything moves slowly, and the world is seen through a blur; As for death, it seems like a joke, even the feelings become numb; So that one laughs when one should cry.
Without lacking a sense of humor and bitter banter, Dennis Johnson presents in this collection an honest testimony about the lives of young addicts in the United States of America, and despite all the laughter and smiles generated by the book’s funny characters with their jokes and behavior, perhaps the reader will wonder at the end: Why does he feel this way? All sadness? It is a book written in the mouth of addicts, not about them, and describes their alienation and their connection with the world that is gradually fading.
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