Geeks, Genes, and the Evolution of Asperger Syndrome

How it reads

Geeks, Genes, and the Evolution of Asperger Syndrome is narrative nonfiction (popular science, specifically), and its dominant mood is hopeful. Whatever it puts its people through, it believes things can get better. The pace is moderate — neither a page-turner nor a slow burn — so it holds up whether you read it in long sittings or short ones.

It's set in several locations, in the recent past, told in the third person across several viewpoints. Its central concerns are identity and class and society. In weight it sits in the middle: substantial without being heavy going.

It stands alone, so there's nothing else you need to read first or after. The ending resolves happily. At 264 pages it's a quick read. It's a hidden gem — known to relatively few readers.