A review by ovenbird_reads
Love Anthony by Lisa Genova

3.0

This was a page turner, and parts of this book were really beautiful. I also found it emotionally wrenching, but I think that was because I kept imagining losing my own son. The story had some merit, but I was thrown by the supernatural element of a writer channeling the voice of a dead autistic boy. That aspect came across as too far-fetched for me. While the view into the life of an autistic child and into the life of his grief stricken mother was powerful, I just wasn't keen on the voices from the afterlife construction of narrative. Regardless, I gobbled up this novel in just over a day, flawed or not.