On Tuesday, November 5th at 7:30pm Warwick's will host Christina Adams as she discusses and signs her new book, Camel Crazy: A Quest for Miracles in the Mysterious World of Camels. Christina Adams is a journalist and the author of the memoir A Real Boy. She speaks on autism, health, and camels, and her work has been featured by NPR, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Global Advances in Health and Medicine, and more. She lives in Laguna Beach, California. More information at ChristinaAdamsAuthor.com. She lives in Los Angeles. This event is free and open to the public. Reserved Seating is available when the book is pre-ordered from Warwick's for the event. Only books purchased from Warwick's will be signed. Please call the Warwick's Book Dept. (858) 454-0347 for details.

How and why does someone become the first person to obtain federal government permission to import camel milk as a treatment for autism? And why should anyone care? This armchair adventure answers these questions and then some. When Christina Adams suspected that camel milk might help her son with autism, a faraway doc helped her smuggle some into the United States. Her son got dramatically better overnight, and off Adams went to find camels and discover why they are cherished as family members and hailed as healers. She visits the camel farms of Arab royals and meets passionate Amish farmers, elusive Indian camel caregivers, and whiteswathed Tuareg nomads. But the most fascinating characters are the camels themselves, cute and mischievous but also adept fighters. Their imposing teeth and height scared Adams even as their soft lips and gentle, curious eyes won her over. Readers, too, will be won over by this moving and rollicking ode to “camel people” and the creatures they adore.