## Review Date #note/sourcereview/book | #source/book📚/fiction ## What is the story Robin is a 9-year-old who's mother has died and struggles with an extreme form of what we currently call Autism spectrum disorder. His father is a scientist, astrobiologist actually, studying the spectrum of light bending around exoplanets to determine the presence of life. As an experimental therapy Robin is enrolled in a program where an AI trains him to be able to focus his mind, he does it in a fMRI based on recordings taken from his mother. His mother was a nature lobbyist/activist in Madison, Wisconsin. The story occurs as his father does his best to help Robin navigate school, childhood, and a crumbling democracy and wilderness landscape. The story starts and ends in the Smokies of North Carolina or Tennessee where Aly and the dad had gone on their honeymoon. In the middle Robbie and his dad muddle through as best they can, get caught in the attention economy, and do their best to deal with the world the way it really is. ## What else do I wonder about? #### The essential questions raised - What are the truths we can learn from this type of fiction? - What will we do for our family that turns out wrong? ## Action ## When do I want to stumble across this? #on/relationships #on/infinite ## Source: [Goodreads: Bewilderment ]([](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56404444-bewilderment)) ## References, Quotes, Ideas ```dataview table file.mtime.year + "-" + file.mtime.month + "-" + file.mtime.day as Modified from [[Bewilderment]] and !outgoing([[Bewilderment]]) sort file.mtime desc ```