Love Anthony
By: Lisa Genova
Series: Thorndike Press large print basic; Thorndike Press large print basic series
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Waterville, Maine
Language: eng
Number of pages: 461
ISBN-13: 9781410454461
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Mothers and sons; Death; Meaning (Psychology); Mothers of autistic children; Fiction; Grief; Autistic children; Women authors; Female friendship; Large type books; Children
Description: Olivia Donatelli's dream of a "normal" life shattered when her son, Anthony, was diagnosed with autism at age three. Understanding the world from his perspective felt bewildering. And just as Olivia began to realize that happiness and autism could coexist, Anthony died. Now Olivia is alone in a cottage on Nantucket, separated from her husband, desperate to understand the meaning of her son's short life, when a chance encounter with another woman facing her own loss brings Anthony alive again for Olivia in a most unexpected way.