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Love Anthony by Lisa Genova
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Love Anthony (original 2012; edition 2012)

by Lisa Genova (Author)

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Two women meet by accident on a Nantucket beach and are drawn into a friendship. Olivia is a young mother whose eight-year-old severely autistic son has recently died. She comes to the island in a trial separation to try and make sense of the tragedy of her Anthony's short life. Beth, a stay-at-home mother of three, is also recently separated after discovering her husband's long-term infidelity.… (more)
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Title:Love Anthony
Authors:Lisa Genova (Author)
Info:Simon & Schuster Audio (2012), Edition: Unabridged, 8 pages
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Love Anthony by Lisa Genova (2012)

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    House Rules by Jodi Picoult (Iudita)
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    Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks (LDVoorberg)
    LDVoorberg: Both books provide some insight into children who have ASD.
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Autism
  BooksInMirror | Feb 19, 2024 |
This was a decent story - the supernatural element went a bit too far for my tastes. The author clearly has a good understanding of autism and did a great job describing what it might be like to be a boy with autism (or autistic boy, if you prefer!). The descriptions of the emotions and experiences of a mom of a child on the autism spectrum particularly resonated with me. ( )
  CarolHicksCase | Mar 12, 2023 |
I know too many people in the spectrum of autism....yes, I guess everyone is somewhere in there. This was sweetly told about having and losing a child with rather severe autism. The ending really was perfect. ( )
  nyiper | Oct 17, 2021 |
I actually liked this one. I thought it was better than the previous book I read by the same author. I wasn't sure where she was going with the story at first but once she developed the characters a bit more, I loved the idea of how the women connected. I can't say much more than that without spoilers but this one was pretty good. ( )
  Stacie-C | May 8, 2021 |
Love Anthony may be my favorite of all of Lisa Genova's books. I went through a list of her books and now I have read all of them. My brother is similar in many ways to Anthony. Anthony had epilepsy and my brother does not. My brother was non-verbal until the age of six. His word was refrigerator. He does not talk in sentences, but can answer questions with a "yes" or "no" if you are patient enough. He does initiate conversation. When we took him to eat at a fast food place. I was shocked that he said. "Ketchup please". He was 52 at the time.

Anthony has a minimal part in this book but I am very grateful for it and now I have a longing to connect with parents, brothers and sisters to share experiences. The way that he was in those few pages was true and so similar to my brother. My brother had the same reactions to when there was too much noise or too people.

The marital problems between Olivia and Dan were typical, my parents separated and eventually divorced. Olivia was very like my own mother. I would loved it if my my mother had lived long enough to read this book. The marital problems between Beth and Jimmy was very good for me to read. My first marriage also ended similarly.

I hope that anyone who has a child with autism reads this book. I bought this book myself to see how Lisa Genova portrayed autism. ( )
  Carolee888 | Jun 10, 2020 |
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There’s a point in the narrative where one of the characters becomes so engrossed in reading a book that she loses track of time. Readers of Genova’s latest excellent offering might very well find the same happening to them.

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Two women meet by accident on a Nantucket beach and are drawn into a friendship. Olivia is a young mother whose eight-year-old severely autistic son has recently died. She comes to the island in a trial separation to try and make sense of the tragedy of her Anthony's short life. Beth, a stay-at-home mother of three, is also recently separated after discovering her husband's long-term infidelity.

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