Benjamin Ludwig

Readers who loved Christopher from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Jack from Room, and Bee from Where’d You Go, Bernadette, will be thrilled to get to know Ginny Moon in this unforgettable debut that affirms of how fiction has the power to change the way we look at the world.

Told in an extraordinary and wholly unique voice that will candidly take you into the mind of a curious and deeply human character.

For the first time in her life, Ginny Moon has found her “forever home”-a place where she’ll be safe and protected, with a family that will love and nurture her. It’s exactly the kind of home that all foster kids are hoping for. So why is this 14-year-old so desperate to get kidnapped by her abusive, drug-addict birth mother, Gloria, and return to a grim existence of hiding under the kitchen sink to avoid the authorities and her mother’s violent boyfriends?

While Ginny is pretty much your average teenager-she plays the flute in the school band, has weekly basketball practice and studies Robert Frost poems for English class-she is autistic. And so what’s important to Ginny includes starting every day with exactly nine grapes for breakfast, Michael Jackson, bacon-pineapple pizza and, most of all, getting back to Gloria so she can take care of her baby doll.

A compulsively readable and touching novel, this story is about being an outsider trying to find a place to belong and making sense of a world that just doesn’t seem to add up.

Benjamin Ludwig lives in New Hampshire with his family and is a life-long teacher of English and writing. He holds an MAT in English Education and an MFA in Writing. Shortly after he and his wife married they became foster parents and adopted a teenager with autism.