The Story of Beautiful Girl - Softcover

Simon, Rachel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1455502472 ISBN 13: 9781455502479

Verlag: Hachette Book Group USA, 2011

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An unforgettably moving love story about the improbable odds faced by a disabled couple and a lost child-from the author of the bestseller Riding the Bus with My Sister. Lynnie and Homan are an unlikely couple hindered by race and disabilities, hidden away in a hospital. One night the couple escapes and takes refuge in the home of a retired school teacher, Martha. When the authorities finally catch up, Lynnie mutters only two words to Martha, 'Hide Her.' THE STORY OF BEAUTIFUL is the tale of three lives desperate to connect, yet kept apart by seemingly insurmountable obstacles.

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The story of Lynnie, a young white woman with a developmental disability that hinders her ability to speak, and Homan, an African American deaf man with only his home sign language to guide him. Both were institutionalized in the mid-twentieth century, when people with disabilities were routinely shut off from society and left to languish without attention, forgotten.

One night, Lynnie and her sweetheart, Homan, escape. They find refuge in the farmhouse of the widow Martha, a retired schoolteacher. But the couple is not alone; Lynnie has just borne a child. The authories catch up to them and Lynnie is caught. But just before she is gruffly taken back to The School for the Incurable and Feebleminded, she utters two words to Martha: 'Hide her.' And so begins the tale of three lives desperate to connect, yet kept apart by seemingly insurmountable obstacles.

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• Verlag: Hachette Book Group USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1455502472
• ISBN 13: 9781455502479
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 392