Kirstie's Reviews > With the Light: Raising an Autistic Child

With the Light by Keiko Tobe

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Aug 23, 12

bookshelves: graphic-novels, josei-manga, manga, pure-awesome, strong-female-characters
Read in August, 2012 — I own a copy, read count: 4

With the Light is the wonderful tale of Sachiko Azuma and her autistic son, Hikaru. Mild spoilers ahead.

Masato's (Hikaru's father) awful boss forces him into a transfer to the boonies. Masato channels some of his wife amazing strength and instead of sitting around bored in a hot room with no air-conditioning he snatches the opportunity to finally get all his ideas down on paper, enabling him to get a promotion out of that dead-end. We also get to enjoy a lot of speculation about Hikaru's future as a 'happy working adult'. This volume also features the return of Oki-kun. I love how Tobe-sama reweaves characters back into the story, like Oki-kun and Tanaka-kun, so you never totally loose touch - just like people in real life.

I recommend this series to lovers of manga, those who wish to try out manga and want to be sure they start with the good stuff and anyone curious as to the story of life with an autistic child.

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