Table of Contents
I The Mystery
1 Is That Your Kid? 1
2 The Boy Who Changed Everything 8
3 The Check 15
4 Evaluating Kai 23
5 The Suspicion 31
6 San Francisco 38
7 The Cobra 42
8 The Fox 49
9 Lynda Sees It First 57
II The Hunt
1 Powerless 67
2 Saved from the Wastebasket 71
3 Kamila, the Astronaut 76
4 A Strange Boy 83
5 Doubt 90
6 Don't Cross That Line 96
7 Back in the Land of the Special People 105
8 Tania Can't See It 113
9 Last Chance 119
10 The Tree 125
III Understanding
1 How Kai Saw the World 133
2 What Have We Done? 136
3 No Window Seat? 146
4 Counterintuitive 153
5 Letters 162
6 Building a Brain 168
7 Fighting with Colleagues 176
8 Monica Is Crying 185
9 Pioneers and Child Prodigies 194
10 Great Expectations 198
11 Needed 209
12 Beloved Kai 218
Acknowledgments 221