The Story of Beautiful Girl

By Rachel Simon

Subjects: People with disabilities, Amerikanisches Englisch, Fiction, general, Handicapped, Fiction, Widows, Deaf, Inmates of institutions, People with disabilities, fiction, Abandoned children

Description: 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.