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A review by jugglingpup
Love Anthony by Lisa Genova
3.0
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So I am a huge fan of this author so the second I got a big boy job out of college, I went and bought this book on my break. It took me about a year to get around to actually reading it. I loved that it was about autism. My little brother is on the autism spectrum and the way the other books by this author are written I thought it would give some insight on how he sees the world.
Instead this is the story of the mother of a child with autism and a woman who is dealing with the breaking up of her family after her husband cheats on her. So the two women bond after they run across each other on the island. Then the story is told from alternating perspectives between the women and also the writing about a little boy named Anthony that has autism.
This is not the normal set up for this author. I much prefer her normal mode of telling the story from the perspective of the person with the psychological diagnosis. However, I can’t complain about the writing or what happened. As also this author was incredible. This book just didn’t live up to the other books.
I really wish I had more to say on this book. There was nothing actually wrong with it but there was also nothing that was amazing about it either. Read if you like “chick lit”.
So I am a huge fan of this author so the second I got a big boy job out of college, I went and bought this book on my break. It took me about a year to get around to actually reading it. I loved that it was about autism. My little brother is on the autism spectrum and the way the other books by this author are written I thought it would give some insight on how he sees the world.
Instead this is the story of the mother of a child with autism and a woman who is dealing with the breaking up of her family after her husband cheats on her. So the two women bond after they run across each other on the island. Then the story is told from alternating perspectives between the women and also the writing about a little boy named Anthony that has autism.
This is not the normal set up for this author. I much prefer her normal mode of telling the story from the perspective of the person with the psychological diagnosis. However, I can’t complain about the writing or what happened. As also this author was incredible. This book just didn’t live up to the other books.
I really wish I had more to say on this book. There was nothing actually wrong with it but there was also nothing that was amazing about it either. Read if you like “chick lit”.