The story of Beautiful Girl

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.

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