\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe award-winning, laugh-out-loud, reach-for-the-tissues story of an autistic boyâs desperate struggle to survive a deadly illness and the backyard chicken who transforms his life into a tale of improbable hope and miraculous healing.\n\nâHeartbreakingly beautiful - the gift of the human animal bond.â âTemple Grandin\u003c/b\u003e\n\nEight-year-old Andrew is autistic and bilingual. He speaks Englishâand Chicken. \n \nWith words limited by autism, Andrew lives in a fantastic world where chickens talk and superheroes come alive. But when he tells his pet chicken Frightful that his body is trying to kill him, it launches Andrewâs family and an entire medical community into a decade-long quest for answers.\n \nThis beautiful, fierce, and refreshingly honest memoir takes readers on a motherâs journey through the complex landscape of modern medicine to discover the healing bond between a boy and Frightful, the chicken who saves them all.\n\nPraise for The Chicken Who Saved Us:\nâThis book is proof that the transcendent human-animal bond can offer a very real kind of salvation.\" â\u003cb\u003eJulie Barton\u003c/b\u003e, New York Times Bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eDog Medicine, How My Dog Saved Me from Myself\u003c/i\u003e\n\nâA lovely tale that shows us how human thoughts and words are not always necessary to form great friendships and unbreakable bonds.â â\u003cb\u003eJohn Elder Robison, New York Times Bestselling author of Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Aspergerâs\u003c/b\u003e \u003c/DIV\u003e
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