num_pages: 256
description: "A tragic tale of obsession, exploitation, and lost souls. And the questions Rymer poses about human experience and experiments on humans make the story both intellectually absorbing and emotionally disturbing.  Genie  is a wondrous feat of storytelling and investigative journalism, compulsively readable while forcing us to think hard about our own humanity." —Amy Tan,  New York Times  bestselling author of  The Joy Luck Club The compelling story of a young woman's emergence into the world after spending her first 13 years strapped to a chair in a closed room, and her rescue and exploitation by scientists hoping to gain new insight into language acquisition.
language: English
title: Genie: A Scientific Tragedy
titlecomplete: Genie: A Scientific Tragedy
genres: Medical, Psychology, History, Biography, Science, Memoir, Biography Memoir, Language, Linguistics, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1038
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction
publisher: Harper Perennial