Good Kings Bad Kings
This powerful and inspiring debut invites us into a landscape populated with young people whose lives have been irreversibly changed by misfortune but whose voices resound with resilience, courage, and humor. Inside the halls of ILLC, an institution for juveniles with disabilities, we discover a...
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This powerful and inspiring debut invites us into a landscape populated with young people whose lives have been irreversibly changed by misfortune but whose voices resound with resilience, courage, and humor. Inside the halls of ILLC, an institution for juveniles with disabilities, we discover a place that is deeply different from and yet remarkably the same as the world outside. Nussbaum crafts a multifaceted portrait of a way of life hidden from most of us. In this isolated place on Chicago’s South Side, friendships are forged, trust is built, and love affairs begin. It’s in these alliances that the residents of this neglected community ultimately find the strength to bond together, resist their mistreatment, and finally fight back. And in the process, each is transformed.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781616202637 (1616202637)
Publish date: May 28th 2013
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages no: 298
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Novels,
Literature,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Realistic Fiction,
American,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
Glbt,
Lesbian,
Disability
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Good Kings, Bad Kings is aptly titled as it reminded me of a game of chess. In this novel, the pieces have been meticulously laid out—the advocate, the abuser, the scammer, the victim, the lesbian, the bishop, the pawn—and all the moves are predetermined, characters are not allowed to make their own...
This is a very realistic view of private residences for disabled youth. They are created to serve children with physical and or psychological and mental challenges and quickly become cash cows for unscrupulous investors and greedy, lazy doctors. I saw this first hand almost 40 years ago when I worke...
Thank you Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill via NetGalley for providing me a copy of this book! Using the voices and points of view of several patients and staff members of a once state-run nursing home for youth, Nussbaum tells the story of those who are placed in these institutions, those who put the...
It must feel heady to receive an award for your first novel almost a year before it's published. Susan Nussbaum received the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction in June of 2012. The prize promotes “fiction that addresses issues of social justice and the impact of culture and politics ...
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