This book is about a 15-year old boy named Christopher John Francis Boone who is an autistic. He is a genius at math and love physics. He hates yellow and brown and does not like to be touch. Christopher takes everything that he sees (or is told) at face value, and is unable to sort out the strange behavior of his elders and peers. He lived with his father after his mother who can barely cope with his quirks, left him. But he does not know this because his father told him that his mother died of heart attack until one day he found her letters.
The story begins when his neighbor's dog named Wellington was killed with a garden fork. Encouraged by his teacher, Siobhan, he then try to solve the mystery of who killed Wellington. He also writes a book about the investigation. His search for answers however leads him to unsuspecting twist in his life.
Haddon 'got it right' with this novel. He was able to write this book from Christopher's point of view and yet managed to make him lovable albeit of his quirkiness. Haddon navigates the novel with extraordinary touch which do not make this book condescending, overly sentimental, exploitive or grossly tasteless. Quite a rare gift he had for a first-time novelist, I say.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is original, clever, and genuinely moving: this one is a must-read.
