On Friday, March 18, the author and advocate will speak at BU, hosted by Wheelock College of Education & Human Development and the Ivy Street School, a private school based in Brookline, Mass., that supports neurodivergent youth. She is also the subject of the acclaimed HBO film Temple Grandin, starring Claire Danes, who won an Emmy for her portrayal of Grandin. She has received multiple honorary degrees and in 2016 was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She also delivered a TED Talk that year, “The World Needs All Kinds of Minds,” about the need for neurodiversity, which has since garnered more than six million views. She’s also garnered myriad accolades: in 2010, she was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people. Grandin’s portfolio has also grown: since Emergence, she’s authored numerous books on neurodivergency (plus a handful on animal behavior and husbandry), including the New York Times bestseller The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013). Over the intervening decades, our understanding of autism spectrum disorder-which is estimated to affect one in 44 children in the United States-has vastly widened, as has our ability to support individuals living with developmental disorders.
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People of Kars, the real people, today, hate Orhan Pamuk. Kars is a real city, at the East (North East) of Turkey. : actual happenings in Kars or elsewhere? : – Are the events in the novel based to any extent on Turkey itself is only about a third that size, so where are all the other Turkish-speaking people? – I saw somewhere, perhaps in the Pamuk interview linked from a previous posting, that a quarter of a billion people speak Turkish. How much has the political situation in Turkey changed since then? – How accurately and fairly does the author depict the social and political conditions at that place and time? – Are the events in the novel based to any extent on actual happenings in Kars or elsewhere? I’ll withhold comment until others are ready to discuss, but I do have some non-spoiler questions for those who are more familiar with the author and the subject matter: Next, Daverak, a son-in-law of Bon, takes more than what was agreed upon in the distribution of Bon Agornin’s wealth, which is complicated by Penn having taken Bon’s confession and therefore being unable to share said wealth distribution agreement without also sharing his confession, as well as the fact that part of the distribution of wealth includes cannibalizing Bon’s remains for health and strength, which most of the rest of the family feels they need more. Several main conflicts are introduced early on that span most of the book, starting with a dying confession Bon makes to Penn, who as a priest absolves him of his wrongdoing despite the issues it would raise for his church. The novel begins with the death of Bon Agornin, the patriarch of a middle-to-high-class family of five direct descendants, including Penn, Haner, Selendra, Berend, and Avan Agornin, along with more extended family, who have gathered around both to mourn his passing and to collect their inheritance. The book's plot is similar to that of a Victorian romance – specifically, Anthony Trollope's novel Framley Parsonage – with the obvious difference that the protagonists are not human beings but dragons. It won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 2004. Tooth and Claw is a fantasy novel by Welsh-Canadian writer Jo Walton, published by Tor Books on November 1, 2003. |