2010 Finalist

The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for His Disabled Son

by Ian Brown

A wrenching, heartbreaking but also remarkably hard-headed inquiry into the purpose and value of a disabled life - from the perspective of a father determined to understand, support and celebrate the struggles of his severely handicapped son. Ian Brown writes with a ruthless but eloquent honesty about a subject we too often sentimentalize, or, worse, sweep under the carpet.



Ian Brown at the presentation ceremony, January 15, 2010.