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Buzz Bissingers twins were born three minutes—and a world—apart. Gerry, the older one, is a graduate student preparing to become a teacher. His brother Zach is a savant, challenged by serious intellectual deficits but also blessed with rare talents: an astonishing memory, a dazzling knack for navigation, and a reflexive honesty that can make him both socially awkward and surprisingly wise.
One summer, striving to understand the twenty-four-year-old son who remains, in many ways, a mystery, Buzz convinces Zach to join him on a cross-country road trip. As father and son drive from Philadelphia to Los Angeles, revisiting all the places they have lived together, Buzz learns to see the world through Zachs eyes. Father's Day is a powerful account of this journey, and a universal tale of the bond between parents and children.
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"Isaacson's astonishing memoir
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"Everyone who is fascinated by the human-animal bond should read this totally engrossing book."
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"Rupert Isaacson has conjured a non-fiction journey that reads like an epic novel.
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"In this intense, polished account, the parents of an autistic boy trek to the Mongolian steppes to consult shamans in a last-ditch effort to alter his unraveling behavior.... Isaacson records heartening improvement in Rowan's firestormlike tantrums and incontinence, as he taps into an ancient, valuable form of spirit healing."--Publishers Weekly
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"A colorful real-life adventure with inspiring results."--Good Housekeeping
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"Isaacson charts his son's progress and regressions with an endearing tenderness....
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"Isaacson's astonishing memoir
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"Isaacson's astonishing memoir
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"Isaacson's astonishing memoir
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"Isaacson's astonishing memoir
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"Isaacson's astonishing memoir
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"Isaacson's astonishing memoir
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"Isaacson's astonishing memoir
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"Isaacson's astonishing memoir
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"Isaacson's astonishing memoir
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"Isaacson's astonishing memoir
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"Isaacson's astonishing memoir
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"Isaacson's astonishing memoir
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"Isaacson's astonishing memoir
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"Isaacson's astonishing memoir
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"Isaacson's astonishing memoir
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"Isaacson's astonishing memoir
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"Isaacson's astonishing memoir
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"Isaacson's astonishing memoir
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"Isaacson's astonishing memoir
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"Isaacson's astonishing memoir
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"Isaacson's astonishing memoir
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"Isaacson's astonishing memoir
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"Isaacson's astonishing memoir
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"Isaacson's astonishing memoir
Synopsis
When his son Rowan was diagnosed with autism, Rupert Isaacson was devastated, afraid he might never be able to communicate with his child.
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After his son Rowan is diagnosed with autism, Isaacson, a lifelong horseman, takes Rowan to Mongolia, the one place in the world where horses and shamanic healing intersect. This is the dramatic and heartwarming story of that impossible adventure.
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The best-selling author of Friday Night Lights and 3 Nights in August travels cross-country on a road trip with his son Zach, whose premature birth left him with a mix of remarkable skills and profound disabilities known as savantism. As father and son journey through the best and worst of America—and the best and worst in each other—Buzz tries to discover the logic behind Zach's unique way of seeing the world.
About the Author
Buzz Bissinger is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of four books, including the New York Times bestseller 3 Nights in August and Friday Night Lights, which has sold two million copies and inspired a film and TV franchise. He is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair and a sports columnist for The Daily Beast. He has written for the New York Times, The New Republic, Time and many other publications.