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Unstrange Minds Selected as Library Journal Best Books, 2007  (will appear in LJ December issue):


Anthropologist Grinker’s affecting investigation communicates a much-needed truth: autism is both a disease (biological) and an illness, i.e., a life-altering experience completely at odds with society. Hope then comes like a bullet via vignettes of parents from America to Korea who’ve adapted to their children’s “unstrange” worldviews. (LJ 1/07)


 
Finalist, Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing, American Anthropological Association (AAA), presented to Unstrange Minds at an Awards Ceremeony at the AAA meetings, 12/1/07, Washington, D.C.

"Best Books 2007" (Library Journal)
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
COMMENTARY 

Science on Trial
By ROY RICHARD GRINKER
June 30, 2007; Page A6
Unstrange Minds:
 Remapping the World of AUTISM
$26.00/$31.50
February 2007
0-465-02763-6
978-0-465-02763-7

Unstrange Minds has been selected for a 2008 Ken Award from the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) for: "Outstanding Literary Contribution to a Better Understanding of Mental Illness."

NAMI (the National Alliance on Mental Illness) is the nation's largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to improving the lives of persons living with serious mental illness and their families. Founded in 1979, NAMI has become the nation's voice on mental illness, a national organization including NAMI organizations in every state and in over 1100 local communities across the country who join together to meet the NAMI mission through advocacy, research, support, and education.


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Unstrange Minds has been translated into Dutch and will appear in Korean and Japanese later this year. The book will appear in paperback in February, 2008. A British edition will be published by Icon books in May 2008.
©2007 Roy Richard Grinker