Ian Brown author of The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for His Disabled Son
Ian Brown in conversation with Jian Ghomeshi on CBC's radio Q.
Ian Brown in conversation with Jian Ghomeshi on CBC's radio Q.
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The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for His Disabled Son
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Biography & Autobiography
Vintage Canada | 978-0-679-31009-9
May 4, 2010
$21.00
Walker Brown was born with a genetic mutation so rare that doctors call it an orphan syndrome: perhaps 300 people around the world also live with it. Walker turns twelve in 2008, but he weighs only 54 pounds, is still in diapers, can’t speak and needs to wear special cuffs on his arms so that he can’t continually hit himself. “Sometimes watching him,” Brown writes, “is like looking at the man in the moon – but you know there is actually no man there. But if Walker is so insubstantial, why does he feel so important? What is he trying to show me?”
