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''Love Anthony'' is a 2012 novel by Lisa Genova (author of ''Film/StillAlice''). The book is set in Nantucket and follows two women recently separated from their husbands: Beth Ellis, the mother of three daughters, who kicked her husband out after she found out he was having an affair, and Olivia Donatelli, who is living in her family's rarely-used vacation home while she mourns the death of her eight-year-old autistic son Anthony.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Beth learned Jimmy was cheating on her when she got a card from his mistress that said, "I'm sleeping with Jimmy. PS. He loves me."
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''Love Anthony'' is a 2012 novel by Lisa Genova (author of ''Film/StillAlice''). The book is set in Nantucket and follows two recently separated women: Beth Ellis, the mother of three daughters, who kicked her husband out after she found out he was having an affair, and Olivia Donatelli, who is living in the family's rarely-used vacation home while she mourns the death of her eight-year-old autistic son Anthony.
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''Love Anthony'' is a 2012 novel by Lisa Genova (author of ''Film/StillAlice''). The book is set in Nantucket and follows two women recently separated women: from their husbands: Beth Ellis, the mother of three daughters, who kicked her husband out after she found out he was having an affair, and Olivia Donatelli, who is living in the her family's rarely-used vacation home while she mourns the death of her eight-year-old autistic son Anthony.
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''Love Anthony'' is a 2012 novel by Lisa Genova. The book is set in Nantucket and follows two recently separated women: Beth Ellis, the mother of three daughters, who kicked her husband out after she found out he was having an affair, and Olivia Donatelli, who is living in the family's rarely-used vacation home while she mourns the death of her eight-year-old autistic son Anthony.
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''Love Anthony'' is a 2012 novel by Lisa Genova.Genova (author of ''Film/StillAlice''). The book is set in Nantucket and follows two recently separated women: Beth Ellis, the mother of three daughters, who kicked her husband out after she found out he was having an affair, and Olivia Donatelli, who is living in the family's rarely-used vacation home while she mourns the death of her eight-year-old autistic son Anthony.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoThePast: The book takes place throughout 2010 and early 2011.
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''Love Anthony'' is a 2012 novel by Lisa Genova. The book is set in Nantucket and follows two recently separated women: Beth Ellis, the mother of three daughters, who kicked her husband out after she found out he was having an affair; affair, and Olivia Donatelli, who is living in the family's rarely-used vacation home while she mourns the death of her eight-year-old autistic son Anthony.
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* PosthumousCharacter: The book opens about a year after Anthony's death.
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* CPRCleanPrettyReliable: [[spoiler:Averted. After Anthony's fatal seizure, Olivia attempts CPR, and then two paramedics take over. Olivia is shocked by how much force they're using, thinking they'll hurt him, but in any event the CPR fails and he dies.]]
* HatesBeingTouched: Anthony hated being grabbed because he could only pay attention to one sense or mental activity at once, and being touched jerked his mind away from whatever he was trying to do.
* SensoryOverload: At a wedding, Olivia and Beth both notice an unfamiliar autistic boy rocking back and forth with his hands over his ears before he takes off and runs to the nearby beach.
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* ThemedParty: Anthony had ''Series/BarneyAndFriends''-themed birthday parties, with a Barney-shaped cake, year after year, long after the other kids had all outgrown the show.
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* ThemedParty: Anthony had ''Series/BarneyAndFriends''-themed birthday parties, with a Barney-shaped cake, year after year, long after the other kids had all outgrown the show. [[spoiler:Later, Beth's book club throws a party based on the book she writes about Anthony, with French toast sticks and a white pebble on each napkin.]]
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* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: For years, Olivia hated Anthony's autism and drove the family into debt pursuing various quack treatments. Then, just as she was starting to realize that Anthony was happy and she and David could be too, Anthony died.
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* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: For years, Olivia and David hated Anthony's autism autism. They spent their life savings and drove refinanced the family into debt house pursuing various quack treatments. Then, just as she Olivia was starting to realize that Anthony was happy and she and David could be too, Anthony died.
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* FluffyCloudHeaven: This is Beth's idea of heaven, as she's vaguely Christian but was never actively religious. After her mother died, she wished she had something more solid to believe in, as it's hard for her to picture her mother sitting on a cloud, surrounded by naked winged babies.
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* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: For years, Olivia hated Anthony's autism and drove the family into debt pursuing various quack treatments. Then, just as she was starting to realize that Anthony was happy and she and David could be too, Anthony died.
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* EyesAlwaysAverted: Anthony. Olivia once waited hours for him to glance at the camera so she could take a picture.
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* EyesAlwaysAverted: Anthony.Anthony doesn't like eyes because they can look different even in the same situation. Olivia once waited hours for him to glance at the camera so she could take a picture.
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* PottyFailure: In one of her old journal entries, Olivia describes trying to go to CVS because she just got her period and only has two tampons left, but Anthony starts screaming because they usually go right home after going to the playground. She has to tell her husband David to buy them for her, and by the time he gets home, she's run out of tampons and bled through her makeshift toilet paper pad. It's implied that she had a similar accident in eighth grade, this one in front of the popular girls.
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* CommonalityConnection: Beth used to think she and Jimmy were soul mates because they had so much in common. They were both the only children of single parents, and they both had a fierce determination to do something they loved for a living.
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* SymbolicallyBrokenObject: Beth removes every framed photograph of Jimmy she has and rips them to tiny shreds.
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* SoulCrushingDeskJob: After Jimmy graduated from college, he spent a year working a desk job at a small software company. He hated being trapped indoors and found the work soulless, and he admired his lobsterman father, so he moved to Nantucket and became a scalloper.
* SymbolicallyBrokenObject: Beth removes every framed photographof that includes Jimmy she has and rips them to tiny shreds.
* SymbolicallyBrokenObject: Beth removes every framed photograph
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* BeardOfSorrow: Beth's husband Jimmy stops shaving whenever he's going through a hard time, like after Beth kicks him out.
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* ThemedParty: Anthony had ''Series/BarneyAndFriends''-themed birthday parties, with a Barney-shaped cake, year after year, long after the other kids had all outgrown the show.
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''Love Anthony'' is a 2012 novel by Lisa Genova. The book is set in Nantucket and follows two recently separated women: Beth Ellis, the mother of three daughters, who kicked her husband out after she found out he was having an affair; and Olivia Donatelli, who is living in the family's rarely-used vacation home while she mourns the death of her eight-year-old autistic son Anthony.
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!!''Love Anthony'' contains examples of:
* EyesAlwaysAverted: Anthony. Olivia once waited hours for him to glance at the camera so she could take a picture.
* SerialSpouse: Beth's friend Georgia has been divorced four times. After each divorce, she puts a Post-it note on the refrigerator that says "DO NOT GET MARRIED EVER AGAIN." But as a wedding coordinator she's constantly surrounded by beautiful weddings, so she can't help but believe in fairy-tale romance.
* TragicKeepsake: On Olivia's coffee table is a bowl of white pebbles, which Anthony used to line up in rows all over the house.
* YourCheatingHeart: Beth learned Jimmy was cheating on her when she got a card from his mistress that said, "I'm sleeping with Jimmy. PS. He loves me."
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!!''Love Anthony'' contains examples of:
* EyesAlwaysAverted: Anthony. Olivia once waited hours for him to glance at the camera so she could take a picture.
* SerialSpouse: Beth's friend Georgia has been divorced four times. After each divorce, she puts a Post-it note on the refrigerator that says "DO NOT GET MARRIED EVER AGAIN." But as a wedding coordinator she's constantly surrounded by beautiful weddings, so she can't help but believe in fairy-tale romance.
* TragicKeepsake: On Olivia's coffee table is a bowl of white pebbles, which Anthony used to line up in rows all over the house.
* YourCheatingHeart: Beth learned Jimmy was cheating on her when she got a card from his mistress that said, "I'm sleeping with Jimmy. PS. He loves me."
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