Good kings bad kings : a novel / by Susan Nussbaum.
Record details
- ISBN: 1616202637
- ISBN: 9781616202637
- ISBN: 1616202637 : HRD
- ISBN: 9781616202637
- ISBN: 1616202637
- Physical Description: 298 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2013.
- Copyright: ©2013
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | The residents at a facility for disabled young people in Chicago build trust and make friends in an effort to fight against their living conditions and mistreatment. "Susan Nussbaum ... invites us into the lives of a group of typical teenagers--alienated, funny, yearning for autonomy--except that they live in an institution for juveniles with disabilities. This unfamiliar, isolated landscape is much the same as the world outside: friendships are forged, trust is built, love affairs are kindled, and rules are broken. But those who call it home have little or no control over their fate. Good Kings Bad Kings challenges our definitions of what it means to be disabled in a story told with remarkable authenticity and in voices that resound with humor and spirit."--Publisher's description. |
Awards Note: | Pen/Bellwether prize winner for socially engaged fiction. |
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Subject: | Children with disabilities > Institutional care > Fiction. Institutional care > Employees > Fiction. People with disabilities > Institutional care > Fiction. Mental illness > Fiction. |
Genre: | Psychological fiction. Psychological fiction. |
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