My new book, The Big Night: Film Noir and American Dreams, will be published late this year by Johns Hopkins University Press. Check this site soon for further updates!

In a powerful, deeply personal narrative, Mark Osteen chronicles the experience of raising his autistic son, Cameron, and recounts the struggles he and his wife endured in diagnosing, treating, and understanding Cam’s disability. Setting itself apart from other autism books by its unique perspective, One of Us is not a book about a child who overcomes autism. Instead, it’s the story of a different but equally rare sort of victory—the triumph of love over tremendous adversity. Osteen’s memoir provides a crucial perspective to the canon of autism books.

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