Love Anthony by Lisa Genova

The story is about two families’ lives in Nantucket who shares no any personal connections at first.

One day, Olivia, and her husband David had an offspring.A child who is diagnosed with Autism. It became difficult and confusing to their lives to experience such kind of condition, especially when Anthony experienced death.This led to separation where the husband gone abroad, leaving Olivia alone.

On the other side, Beth having three daughters with Jimmy was also living with some kind of commotion. Infidelity triggered and became as a major problem. The guy feeling unloved led him to do such before the couple had decided to separate ways yet still thinking of working the relationship someday.

This is the moment when  Beth had found time for herself in writing, the time where daughters became more independent in terms of managing their lives.

She went to the library every day sitting on the magical chair she had considered and she'd read matters about Autism which directed her to write a book (fiction) about it.

During the time when Olivia is living with huge questions and currently earning as a photographer, she has invited Beth to take pictures of them as a family (without Jimmy), and when Beth had the chance to ask her feedback about the book, both immediately dealt with it.

Twists in the story has never been unusual.

A night where heavy weather still pursued Olivia to visit Beth in her house told that the book that she had done was her son’s story,and this was also the time after Jimmy gone to her house, asking for forgiveness. Instead of accepting the apology by husband, a realization occurred that she cant be with him again. This gave them an end on relationship, finally, she asked for divorce.

Going back to Olivia’s, she immediately uttered that the ending of story is still unfinished and left her unanswered with the questions about her son.

This made Beth in total confusion in regards with what end she is going to make with the story and she had with Jimmy, until one morning, she went back to the library, and found reasons in deciding an ending to her book and love story.

At the end, the novel tries to exemplify that our real purpose in life is to love unconditionally, despite of unanswered questions on why things happened, we should still be grateful, for we are given the chance of continually living.

The writer decided to give chance to his husband, and rewrite the last part of his story until she found satisfaction on those two and the latter made Olivia totally in bliss.

For me, the book is good to be read by parents/individuals who are also living with the condition. This summary is not yet fully detailed and has no excitements to offer yet.

it will try to unlock questions from individuals who are questioning God on why their relative/family has the kind of diagnosis. It has a nice way to inspire people if feeling bad about life that God has given. And some insights were given about how the world is interconnected.