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THE STORY OF BEAUTIFUL GIRL gets right under the skin and into the heart with the story of Lynnie, a young white woman with a developmental disability that hinders her ability to speak, and Homan, an African American deaf man with only his home sign language to guide him. Both were... read more
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- Lynnie: The young white woman born with a developmental disability, whose parents, at the age of seven, dropped her off at the SCHOOL (The Pennsylvania State School for the Incurable and Feebleminded). Lynnie is the protagonist of this amazing story. She is BEAUTIFUL GIRL.
- Homan: The African American deaf man at the center of Lynnie's world. He is a fighter; relentless in his own right through his own incredible story. Together with Lynnie, he sets out to do the impossible and overcome all obstacles. Homan is also known as Buddy and Number Forty-Two.
- Martha Zimmer: the retired school teacher and widow, whose life is completely changed the night she meets Lynnie and Homan. Martha is the 3rd and final piece in what makes THE STORY OF BEAUTIFUL GIRL a must-read.
- Birdie: One of my favourite books of the year. A beautiful story.
- Sue: Add a description of this character.
- Sam
- Julia
- Doreen: Lynnie's best friend.
- Clarence
- Pete
- Hannah: Lynnie's sister.
- Graciela
- Landon
- Henry
- Tonette
- Tom
- Jean
- John-Michael Malone
- Maude
- Mommy
- Dr. Collins
- Andrea
- Geraldine
- Rodney
- Silvers
- Luke
- Wayne
- Scott
- Mr. Todd
- Mr. Eskridge
- Mcclintock
- John Doe
- Mama
- Dr. Hagenbuch
- Carmen
- Suzette
- Gina
- Antoine
- Ricardo
- Strawberry
- Betty Lou
- Mr. Pennington
- Miranda
- Irwin
- Oliver
- Dot
- Ivamae
- Eva
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“The girl did not fight back, bound and tied as she was, nor did she cry out into the chill autumn rain, so surely the doctor and his attendants thought they had won.”
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There were two kinds of hope: the kind you couldn’t do anything about and the kind you could. And even if the kind you could do something about wasn’t what you’d originally wanted, it was still worth doing. A rainy day is better than no day. A small happiness can make a big sadness less sad.
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she realized it was not the rereading that led to fresh insights. It was the rereader—because when a person is changing inside, there are inevitably new things to see.
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“Sometimes you think you know what you want,” she said, hugging her children, “until you see how much more you can have.”
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A person comes into the world with a fist—and a grasp, she thought. Yes, we are built to fight one another, but also to embrace. How cleverly we are created.
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A rainy day can actually be a very important day. And a small hope isn’t really small if it makes a lost hope less sad.
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What if the moments, good and bad, had to be there? What if there was a big drawing? Did that mean there was a Big Artist?
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‘Follow your inclination. It will take you to thoughts you’d never known you’d had.’ ”
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he thought that maybe when you’re making your way forward into your life, it just looks higgledy-piggledy, the way, if you were a fly walking across one of Beautiful Girl’s drawings, all you’d be able to see was green, then blue, then yellow. Only if you got in the air before the swat came down would you see the colors belonged to a big drawing, with the green for this part of the picture, the blue and yellow for others, every color being just where it was meant to be. Could that be what life was?
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Stop, she’d told herself. Self-pity is a worse adversary than ignorance.
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First Sentence edit
"At the end of the night that would change everything, the widow stood on her porch and watched as the young woman was marched down her front drive and shoved into the sedan."
Authors & Contributors edit
- Rachel Simon (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-446-57446-4
Page Count: 352
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-446-57446-4
Page Count: 352
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- Dewey: 813.54
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