Lisa Genova’s previous two books have received a lot of buzz, but I hadn’t read anything by her before so I wasn’t sure what to expect with Love Anthony. The young but exuberant voice that emerges onto the page is a balm to the turmoil within her, a new beginning, and an astonishing bridge back to herself. For the first time in years, she uncaps her pen, takes a deep breath, and begins to write. Heartbroken, she finds the pieces of the vivacious, creative person she used to be packed away in a box in her attic. Yet even before her husband’s affair, she had never felt so alone. Now she’s 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.īeth Ellis’s entire life changed with a simple note: “I’m sleeping with Jimmy.” Fourteen years of marriage.
And just as Olivia was starting to realize that happiness and autism could coexist, Anthony died. Understanding the world from his perspective felt bewildering, nearly impossible. Olivia Donatelli’s dream of a “normal” life shattered when her son, Anthony, was diagnosed with autism at age three.
Published by Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
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