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Similarly, Gowdy's novel Mister Sandman revolves around the family of Joan, a young autistic girl with a savant talent for playing classical music on the piano.

Gowdy's novel The White Bone is written from the perspective of African elephants.

Subsequent novels The Romantic and Helpless deal with characters driven to extreme action by the force of their desires.