From the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of Still Alice and Left Neglected comes a heartfelt novel about an accidental friendship that gives a grieving mother a priceless gift: the ability to understand the thoughts of her eight-year-old autistic son and make sense of his brief life. I'm always hearing about how my brain doesn't work right. . . . But it doesn't feel broken to me. Olivia Donatelli's dream of a "normal" life shattered when her son, Anthony, was diagnosed with autism at age three. ...
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From the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of Still Alice and Left Neglected comes a heartfelt novel about an accidental friendship that gives a grieving mother a priceless gift: the ability to understand the thoughts of her eight-year-old autistic son and make sense of his brief life. I'm always hearing about how my brain doesn't work right. . . . But it doesn't feel broken to me. Olivia Donatelli's dream of a "normal" life shattered when her son, Anthony, was diagnosed with autism at age three. He didn't speak. He hated to be touched. He almost never made eye contact. And just as Olivia was starting to realize that happiness and autism could coexist, Anthony died. 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. In a piercing story about motherhood, autism, and love, Lisa Genova offers us two unforgettable women on the verge of change who discover the small but exuberant voice that helps them both find the answers they need.
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Two women suffering from loss, one a wayward husband the other an autistic child and her marriage. Through strange coincidence their lives intersect and influences both of their futures allowing them to grow through their pain to find love and life worth living again. The voice of the autistic child though silent in life comes through loud and clear after his death. A winner.
