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Overview

Read Cammie McGovern's posts on the Penguin Blog

Like The Lovely Bones and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Cammie McGovern’s breakout novel is at once a hypnotic thriller and an affecting portrait of people as real as our next-door neighbors. In Eye Contact, two children vanish in the woods behind their elementary school. Hours later, nine-year-old Adam is found alive, the sole witness to his playmate’s murder. But because Adam has autism, he is a silent witness. Only his mother, Cara, can help decode his behavior for the police. As the suspense ratchets, Eye Contact becomes a heart-stopping exploration of the bond between a mother and a very special child.

Editorial Reviews

Chicago Tribune
So detailed and illuminating are McGovern's descriptions of Adam ... that she offers, in essence, a primer on the nature of autism. Eye Contact is compelling by virtue of its spiky and in-transition characters. Psychologically rich and sensationally eventful.
Entertainment Weekly
An enticing drama.
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New York Daily News
Deeply moving, actually gripping ... Cammie McGovern ... brings to the page an empathetic understanding of the lock that autism places on a mother's child.
People
An airtight thriller that illuminates the exhausting, isolating realities of parenting special- needs children.
Publishers Weekly
A parent's worst nightmare becomes a crusade for justice in McGovern's dynamite second novel (after 2002's The Art of Seeing), set in an unspecified middle-class suburban community. Shortly after Adam, a nine-year-old boy with autism spectrum disorder, and his friend Amelia, a 10-year-old diagnosed with PDD-NOS (pervasive developmental disorder-not otherwise specified), disappear during recess from Greenwood elementary school, a traumatized Adam turns up next to Amelia's body in the nearby woods. Cara, Adam's 30-year-old single mom, helps the police unlock the clues in Adam's mind to try to identify Amelia's killer. Cara finds surprising assistance from 13-year-old Morgan, who's determined to solve the crime in order to distract authorities from his own guilty secret-accidentally starting a fire in the wetlands his lawyer/environmentalist mom was trying to protect. Meticulously researched and emotionally absorbing, this provocative page-turner also addresses an important issue-how to educate and care for children with special needs. Film rights optioned by Julia Roberts. (June) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
Library Journal
When nine-year-old Adam is discovered hiding in the woods beside the body of a classmate, the police are very interested in talking to the only witness to the little girl's murder. Adam is autistic, however, and this traumatic event forces him to retreat to his own silent world. As his mother, Cara, tries to answer the many questions about her son's bizarre behavior, she launches her own investigation and discovers that certain secrets from her past have surfaced, causing her to question everything and everyone around her. McGovern (The Art of Seeing) has written an unusual literary mystery that combines the elements of a women's novel with the gripping aspects of a good suspense story. Taut writing and alternating viewpoints work effectively to lead the reader down several dead ends en route to an unpredictable and satisfying conclusion. This page-turner is a rewarding look into the life of a mother who must discover the truth, even if it ends up hurting her-and her son-in the process. Recommended for all public libraries. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 2/15/06.]-Kellie Gillespie, City of Mesa Lib., AZ Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
Kirkus Reviews
A ten-year-old girl's murder is witnessed by her autistic schoolmate in this creepy, absorbing literary thriller. McGovern (The Art of Seeing, 2002), herself the mother of an autistic child, builds wrenching drama from her rich premise: Beautiful, unreachable Adam had entered the woods bordering his school with the victim, but cannot communicate what he may have seen or heard. As details accumulate from the subsequent police investigation, we also get gradual disclosures about Adam's single mother, Cara, in particular her past and present attempts to give her son a life while simultaneously protecting him from the pressures and demands of a world he inhabits and comprehends only selectively. Had the author focused more tightly on this poignant mother-son relationship, she might have avoided the diffusion of the story's central mystery among too many other interconnected characters: troubled adolescent boy Morgan, whose willed friendship with Adam promises him much-needed expiation for his own "crime"; Cara's former childhood friend Suzette, sunk in agoraphobia and clinical depression; their common friend Kevin, brain-damaged in a childhood bicycle accident and haunted by unrealized possibilities; and endangered schoolboy Chris, both pathetic victim and calculating, determined avenger. Their stories help make this a genuine page-turner, and McGovern springs numerous plot-worthy surprises. But their narrow suburban world is populated by an excessive number of damaged souls laboring to rebuild their lives; it all reads too much as case study. Nevertheless, the narrative moves like a freight train, and its conclusion will leave no reader unmoved. The unforgettable Adam is both a charmer and,in his distinctively quiet way, a hero. Despite some flaws, a generally successful combination of compassionate domestic realism and pulse-rattling suspense.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780143038900
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 3/14/2007
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 320
  • Sales rank: 451,606
  • Product dimensions: 7.56 (w) x 5.04 (h) x 0.58 (d)

Meet the Author

Cammie McGovern was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford and received the Nelson Algren Award in short fiction. Her work has been published in Redbook, Seventeen, Glimmer Train, TriQuarterly, and other publications. This is her second novel.

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  • Posted July 18, 2010

    A good book, eye opening, but what a jumble of characters to keep straight!

    I did enjoy the book and read it in one day. But because the story kept jumping back and forth in time, I had to go back a few chapters more than once and find out just who a character was again and how their relationship was tied in because there was so many names to keep straight, at times it got a little confusing. I did learn so much though about autism, and how frustrating for both the child and the parent trying to communicate must be. The story was pretty far fetched, had some unnecessary plot twists and characters, and I didn't really feel any empathy for any of the characters except for the little girl.

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  • Posted July 22, 2009

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    Eye Contact

    A friend loaned me this book, and I'm going to have to buy my own copy to keep in my permanent library. I loved it and loathed putting it down. I was a little let down by the ending, because that's not where I would have taken the character, but I can see where the author was coming from. You have GOT to read this. As a special education teacher, it gave me a different insight into Autism, and you have to credit the author for going into her own experiences and understanding. It was an awesome book.

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  • Posted April 14, 2009

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    Entertaining, mysterious, charming

    The story of Adam, the autistic 9 year-old, and his mom is a touching and encouraging one. A deffinate read, even if you don't normally like murder mysterys. I don't normally, but I couldn't put this book down.

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  • Posted March 23, 2009

    Intense story line...

    This book has an intense story line. You can lose yourself in these characters and what they are going through. It does deal with sensitive matter though so if you aren't into those types of books, this book isn't for you.

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  • Posted March 18, 2009

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    This is a book you WILL NOT put down

    I couldnt put this book down until I was finished. The plot keeps thickening and then explodes at the end in a nice neat firework! I couldn't believe how the author pulled everything together! Lastly I loved how she was able to realistically describe an autistic child and the life you live with one!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 3, 2009

    Good Mystery

    I love how the characters in this book are all connected somehow. It is a great mystery that keeps you guessing until the end. I think that the way it talked about autism and it's challenges was realistic and gives a little window into what it is like.

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  • Posted February 9, 2009

    Excellent Book!

    My book club read this for January, and it was really enjoyed by all of us. The book hits on autism with sensitivity and insight from different peoples points of view. This alone kept it quite interesting. The story moved quickly, with a few unforeseen twists and turns, and had a bit of a surprise at the end. I would recommend this highly!!!

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  • Posted January 21, 2009

    Excellent Read

    I read this book in less than 3 days. It was very gripping. Not much action in the plot but the drama was good. It was very easy to read and somewhat touching. I would definately recommend this novel.

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  • Posted January 5, 2009

    eye contact

    You come away learning a lot about autism (if you weren't very familiar with the condition to begin with) and being entertained by the fast-paced plot line that left me guessing until the very end and reading late into the night...

    I would definitely recommend, especially to those interested in or wanting to know more about autism, and those who enjoy a good mystery.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 29, 2008

    Could have been better....

    This book had the potential to be a good one,great storyline. However, the characters were not at all like-able and alot of it was so far fetched. I don't know how it got a 5 star rating. Wouldn't recommend to anyone.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 14, 2008

    It was good, until the end.

    I really had no clue what autism is about, but the author is very descriptive and I understand it now. It was a very intense book, but I didnt like the ending. I think the wrong person killed Amelia. Ugh. It was veryyyy good, but the ending was deffenitly a bummer. Its still a good read. I would check it out.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 10, 2007

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    A truly amazing and enlightening adventure inside the minds of so many characters taht you'll find yourself in so easily. I doont really know anything about autism and still fond this book informitive and just great all around. A MUST READ !!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 22, 2007

    Must read for anyone involved in autism

    Eye Contact kept me involved from the very first chapter. Anyone who has an autistic loved one or works with autism would enjoy this book. A lot of research and personal experience went into this writing and many great statements that I wanted to highlight. Made me realize some of the mistakes I made when my child was younger.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 8, 2007

    good book.

    Very eloquent and all the details are wrapped in such a way that it all makes sense at the end but you are always questioning what happened during the book. McGovern does a great job setting the stage and guiding her readers.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 1, 2007

    Awesome!!

    I'll admit I was a little skeptical. I know the basics about autism, but this book had me from the get-go. Finishing it in about 12 hours, I realized that this may be one of the best well-written books I have ever read! You don't need to know a lot about autism to love it and I learned a lot! Also a great murder mystery!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 4, 2007

    A Great Read....

    Well written, keeps you guessing, fast read

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 2, 2006

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    A young girl has been murdered and the only witness is a child who cannot tell what he sawIn the woods of a small town, Adam, a nine-year-old autistic boy, is discovered hiding near to the body of his classmate. They both wandered off from the school playground several hours earlier, and now the police are relying on Adam as the only witness to an appalling crime. But he can't tell the police what he saw-or what he heard. Barely verbal on the best of days, Adam has retreated into a silent world that Cara, his mother, knows only too well. With her community in shock and her son unable to help with the police investigation, Cara tries to decode the puzzling events. Adam has never broken the rules before, so why did he disappear with the little girl during recess? As a single mother, Cara has devoted her life to opening paths of communication between her son and the outside world. Now, she must interpret the changes in Adam's behavior not only to help him through the trauma, but to help the police catch a killer. Cammie McGovern brings her own experience as the mother of an autistic child to articulate the struggles-and the victories-that consume the lives of parents raising children with special needs. A powerful story of the tangled emotional bond between mother and son, and a thrilling novel of psychological suspense, Eye Contact won't let you go. Lovers of Mystic River will be captivated by this fresh and fascinating journey into the world of a child in crisis and a mother who longs to bring him through unscathed.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 10, 2006

    A must-read this summer!

    I couldn't put down this absorbing tale of an autistic child who is the only witness to the murder of one his few playmates at his school. The author combines a gripping mystery with a moving account (largely based on personal experience) of the many challenges and frustrations (but also rewards) of raising an autistic child.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 6, 2006

    fabulous story

    I read Eye Contact after reading about it's likelyhood to be one of the best books of the year. I couln't agree more. I ordered it from England before its debut here in the states, because I just had to read it. As a mother of three, and a very picky reader, I found this intricately woven tale a breath of fresh air that kept my attention until the shocking end. I recommend this book. It is also wonderful to explore the lives of autistic people, and Adam, her son in the book, is captivating.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 22, 2006

    Couldn't Put it Down

    I loved this book. I read it in 24 hours, I found myself rushing to do things just so I could read some more. I am a picky reader, but this one is definitely a five star.

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