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Format: Quality Paperback, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: Apr 2013
Genre: Fiction - General
Retail Price: $16.99
Pages: 336
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 was gone.
Now she's alone on Nantucket, desperate to find meaning in her son's short life, when a chance encounter with another woman brings Anthony alive again in a most unexpected way. In a piercing story about motherhood, autism, and love, Lisa Genova offers us two unforgettable women who discover the small but exuberant voice that helps them both find the answers they need.