The Story of Beautiful Girl

by Rachel Simon

Book Overview

It is 1968. Lynnie, a young white woman with a developmental disability, and Homan, an African American deaf man, are locked away in an institution, the School for the Incurable and Feebleminded, and have been left to languish, forgotten. Deeply in love, they escape, and find refuge in the farmhouse of Martha, a retired schoolteacher and widow. But the couple is not alone-Lynnie has just given birth to a baby girl. When the authorities catch up to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446574465
• ISBN13: 9780446574464
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"