Thursday Night at the Mall: Movies, Books, Music, and Asperger’s Syndrome

Author Robert L. Seltzer’s second memoir examines a complicated father-son relationship as Seltzer learns how to be a father to a son with Asperger’s. The text presents two different timelines: the first captures a year in the life of father Robert and adult son Chris as they navigate their relationship and find ways to connect through movies, books, and music; the second timeline follows father and son from Chris’s birth through the trial of diagnosis until the timelines meet up in the present day. Seltzer describes himself as a man fleeing his demons and his son as a boy still wrestling his. This beautifully written memoir is a raw and honest look at a struggle many families will relate to.