The Story of Beautiful Girl
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A novel about a woman who can't speak, a man who is deaf, and a widow who finds herself suddenly caring for a newborn baby.
Pennsylvania, 1968. Lynnie, and her sweetheart Homan, have escaped from The School for the Incurable and Feebleminded, an institution where people with disabilities were routinely shut off from society, and left to languish, forgotten.
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The book was pretty interesting. I thought the last third of it was a bit far fetched. Especially the way they all came together in the end.
This didn't exactly live up to the reviews I had read of it before, but it wasn't a chore to read. The different points of view worked well and since several of the characters are nonverbal or speak very little, it was interesting to get their insights. It did drag on a bit long through the middle but the beginning and ending were well done.
