21 Day Blogoversary & Birthday Bash: Day 9 The Story of a Beautiful Girl by Rachel Simon

 Welcome to Day 9 of my 21 Day Blogversary & Birthday Bash

Today, I have an ARC copy of The Story of Beautiful Girl by Rachel Simon due to be release May of 2011, which I hope will appeal to many of my friends who read adult novels. It is a very poignant and heart wrenching story about love and sacrifice.

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.

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