Love Anthony
Subtitle: a novel
By: Lisa Genova
Edition: 1st Gallery Books hardcover ed.
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9781439164686; 9781476704616; 9781439164709
Subjects: Mothers and sons; Women authors; Meaning (Psychology); Female friendship; Mothers of autistic children; Autistic children; Fiction
Description: 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.
Notes: "Gallery original fiction hard."