The Shape of His World, Holding Them Both
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: ISA Therapy, LLC
Published: Apr 5 2026
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.37 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Shape of His World, Holding Them Both is a deeply immersive literary novel that follows Iris, a mother raising two autistic sons-Dylan, nonverbal and sensory-driven, and Jesse, verbal, anxious, and hyper-aware-as their carefully engineered household routines begin to strain under the pressure of growth, institutional failure, and escalating sensory overload. Told in close third person with meticulous attention to bodily sensation, sound, and space, the novel traces how love becomes labor, how safety becomes strategy, and how language-especially institutional language-can either protect or erase vulnerable people. As Dylan's body grows stronger and his regulation more fragile, and Jesse becomes increasingly aware of danger before adults name it, Iris is forced to confront the limits of vigilance and the cost of being the sole translator between her children and a world that misnames them.
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