BOOK CLUB
EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE: FIRST LOVES AND LAST TALES
Oliver Sacks, Picador, $39.99
n this collection of essays Sacks, explaining everything as he goes, seems almost reasonable until you look back and ask yourself, “He did ?” Nothing is normal in his early life or thereafter. Just for a start, his mother, a surgeon, was one of 18 children. In adolescence he had a rare condition which covered him in weeping sores — he was practically a recluse. His career teased and tormented the international inner circle: neurologists are famously conservative. After a tumultuous decade or two — motorbikes, drugs, rough trade — he was celibate for 35 years and then launched into an intense affair towards the end of his long life (he died in 2015). Don’t miss the childhood memories. He
