The story of beautiful girl
By: by Rachel Simon
Publisher: Preface
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9781848093393; 9780099558385
Subjects: Inmates of institutions; Abandoned children; Fiction
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.
Table of contents: title: First published in the United States in 2011 by Grand Central.; title: Summary: On a stormy night in small-town America, a couple, desperate and soaked to the skin, knock on a stranger's door. When Martha, a retired schoolteacher living a safe and conventional life, answers their knock, her world changes forever. For they are fugitives. Lynnie, a young woman with an intellectual disability, and Homan, a deaf man with only sign language to guide him, have escaped together from The School for the Incurable and Feebleminded, a brutal institution where people with disabilities are left to languish, shuttered away from the world. In a moment of despair, they reveal that Lynnie has a newborn baby. But, moments later, the police bang on the door. Homan escapes into the darkness, Lynnie is captured. But just before she is returned to The School, bound and tied, she utters two words to Martha: 'Hide her.' And so begins the unforgettable story of Lynnie, Homan, Martha, and baby Julia; title: lives divided by seemingly insurmountable obstacles, yet drawn together by a secret pact and extraordinary love.