無法接觸的愛，一樣能扭轉人生！
自從兒子Anthony三歲被診斷出自閉症後，Olivia Donatelli夢想的正常生活即一去不復返。小Anthony無法接受這個世界運作的方式，他不說話，也厭惡被人觸碰。Olivia費了很大的力氣才找出與自閉症和平相處的生活方式，然而Anthony卻在此時離開人世。
悲痛欲恆的Olivia試圖去了解Anthony短暫生命所帶來的意義何在？想不到Anthony竟透過另一個女人的筆觸，某天重返她的身邊！
與丈夫Jimmy 結褵14年的Beth Elli，在得知先生出軌後，便跌入深深的空虛寂寞中。向來以夫為重的Beth，突然憶起許多年以前，那個充滿自信、創意十足的自己。她開始寫作，但每當她下筆時，彷彿就能聽到一個年輕的聲音對她說話，引領著她一字一句地找回久違的自我……。
(文/博客來編譯)
作者簡介
莉莎．潔諾娃（Lisa Genova）
哈佛大學神經科學博士，研究主題是憂鬱症之分子病因、帕金森氏症、藥癮、中風引發之記憶喪失等。她積極參與國際失智症支持網絡與美國失智症協會，也是美 國阿茲海默症協會網站專欄作家。此外，她經常參與波士頓地區舞台劇與獨立製片電影的演出。《我想念我自己》是她的第一部小說，目前也著手撰寫下一部小說。 潔諾娃和家人定居麻薩諸塞州。(我想念我自己(Still Alice)中文版由遠流出版)
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. Understanding the world from his perspective felt bewildering, nearly impossible. 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 died.
Now she’s alone in a cottage on Nantucket, separated from her husband, desperate to understand the meaning of her son’s short life, when a chance encounter with another woman facing her own loss brings Anthony alive again for Olivia in a most unexpected way.
Beth Ellis’s entire life changed with a simple note: “I’m sleeping with Jimmy.” Fourteen years of marriage. Three beautiful daughters. Yet even before her husband’s affair, she had never felt so alone. Heartbroken, she finds the pieces of the vivacious, creative person she used to be packed away in a box in her attic. For the first time in years, she uncaps her pen, takes a deep breath, and begins to write. The young but exuberant voice that emerges onto the page is a balm to the turmoil within her, a new beginning, and an astonishing bridge back to herself.
In a piercing story about motherhood, autism, and love, New York Times bestselling author Lisa Genova offers us two unforgettable women on the verge of change and the irrepressible young
boy whose unique wisdom helps them both find the courage to move on.
