Title: Tortuga
First published: 1979
Description: A sixteen-year-old boy, nicknamed after the mountain Tortuga because he is encased in a full-body cast, embarks on a journey of spiritual and physical recovery in a hospital for crippled children after being paralyzed in a swimming accident.
Subjects: Fiction, Accident victims, Hospital patients, Teenage boys, Diving accidents, Romans, Enfants handicapés, Fiction, coming of age, Fiction, biographical, New mexico, fiction, Children with disabilities, Children, Hospitals
Places: New Mexico