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Book Review of Are You Alone on Purpose?

Are You Alone on Purpose?
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Read the stars as three and a half, please.

Harry Roth is the son of a rabbi and a bully. Alison Shandling is the twin of an autistic boy Adam. Harry abuses anyone who might come close enough to see that he is grieving his mother. When he becomes a paraplegic in a diving accident, Alison takes him on as a project, while his father the rabbi teaches Adam Hebrew.

This slight book for younger teens is surprisingly effecting. This is Werlin's first novel, my second of hers.