Grand lack of depth

I love books like this, describing the beneficial role - even therapeutic - of an animal on a child or sick. I have read many (including the beautiful "thanks to the love of a cat" Louise Booth). But here I stay on my hunger; I'm turning the pages and continue my reading, I never had the impression of "back into the thick of it." On page 140, the cat still has not played any key role with the child, who suffers from selective mutism, a form of autism.

The abstract announcement that the cat will open the child to language ... but the child is already talking to some teachers and classmates schools well before the arrival of the cat, even if it's timid and casual. The story is very educational (the journalist who shaped impressions of the mom did it without depth and without research style). There are two pages that return many times "adorable" and "great" for example ... By cons, no analysis - for example - feelings of the mother or the family cope with this autistic child ..

Mom tells stories, but the cat plays a role much thinner. I do remember that a beautiful story of love and trust between a cat and a child, but nothing more. When you read "Through the love of a cat" which is in the same vein, we feel how the cat has revolutionized the concrete life and emotional child, Fraser. Here, nothing of "palpable" ... Everything is "flat."