The Story of Beautiful Girl The Story of Beautiful Girl

The Story of Beautiful Girl

    • 4.3 • 355 Ratings
    • $9.99
    • $9.99

Publisher Description

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 them that same night, Homan escapes into the darkness, and Lynnie is caught. But before she is forced back into the institution, she whispers two words to Martha: "Hide her." And so begins the 40-year epic journey of Lynnie, Homan, Martha, and baby Julia-lives divided by seemingly insurmountable obstacles, yet drawn together by a secret pact and extraordinary love.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2011
May 4
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
352
Pages
PUBLISHER
Grand Central Publishing
SELLER
Hachette Digital, Inc.
SIZE
1.4
MB

Customer Reviews

ShansyPansy ,

This book

This book is so touching, after you read it you can't help but wonder if they lived happily ever after. I like to think that they did.

Bandini8 ,

Love it!!

I could not put this book down! Great writing, great story Highly recommend!!

Jmoc19 ,

Loved it!

Well written, insightful, and heart-warming. I had a hard time putting this book down.

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