All the Little Bird Hearts and autism in recent fiction

‘Discussions of autism often focus on our brains as the source of how we think, but our brains also govern our senses, and so thorough portraits of autistic characters are necessarily physical and sensual. In All The Little Bird-Hearts, Sunday's first-person voice captures her embodied experience of the world.’

Criticism 24th October 2024

Jacqueline Russell

Jacqueline Russell is bisexual, non-binary, and autistic and so far none of these things has made them in the slightest bit trendy. They live in Mullingar with their wife, kid, pets, and multiple simultaneous hyper-fixations.