Re: [book_talk] Love Anthony
- From: Audrey <waterdiva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 03:30:03 -0500
Now hearing you mention the Left Neglected book, peaks my interest in it again.
I think I remember y'all talking about it a while back.
Maybe this is the time for me to read that one. Still so frustrated about the
ongoing new difficulty involved in simply getting on and off the bus, each
time, without getting mortally injured one way or another as payback for
needing ramp & something like curb cut access. Audrey
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On Apr 2, 2013, at 11:36 PM, "Sue Ellen Melo" <susan.melo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I just finished reading Love Anthony by Lisa Genova. I mannaged to lay hands
> on a commercial audio copy of this book. Her book Left Neglected which I
> read last Spring completely changed my attitude toward being a disabled
> person. So when I heard about this book I ran right out and found a copy.
> It is a sad and powerful story that is really about 2 women looking for
> answers and trying to find themselves.
> Beth's world is shattered one stormy March day when she goes for the mail
> and picks up a birthday card from her husband's girlfriend. He not only
> doesn't deny the affair, but moves in with the woman then decides months
> later he wants her back. Olivia is mourning the death of her autistic son
> Anthony and the complete collaps of her marriage to the boy's father. while
> looking for what to wear to go check out her hubby's new girlfriend, Beth
> stumbles on a box in the attic with cloths she enjoyed wearing, and the
> tools of her writing that she had set aside somewhere along the way of
> becoming a hyper obsessed wife and mother. She looks at an old short story
> based partly on a chance encounter on the beach then fueled by a book she
> read and begins to write a story about a boy named Anthony with Autism even
> as Olivia, at last begins confronting her memories of living with a son who
> seemed never to be able to communicate and who's voice she wanted so much to
> hear. The two women's lives cross in passing and eventually cometogether
> over this novel.
>
> This is a wonderful story about what it means to love and express love. As
> well as how we communicate and the different ways to listen. I absolutely
> could not put this book down. I would highly recommend it to anyone who can
> appreciate a story that is sould deep.
>
> ___
> Sue Ellen
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