The 2012 shortlist for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction was announced by Keith Mitchell, chair of the BC Achievement Foundation. Bad Animals: A Father’s Accidental Education in Autism was selected by the jury as one of the four finalists out of a field of 134 nominated books. The winner of the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction will be announced in February 2012.
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Joel Yanofsky tried for years to start this memoir. "It's not just going to be about autism," he told his wife, Cynthia. "It's going to be about parenthood and marriage, about hope and despair, and storytelling, too." 