The Story of Beautiful Girl
Author: Rachel Simon
Source: Birthday present from my friend Jenna
Days to Read: 5
My friend Jenna bought me this book for my birthday and I read it
shortly thereafter.
The novel takes place in the late 60's. Two people escape from the
School for the Incurable and Feebleminded and stumble upon the home of a
widowed, retired schoolteacher. At
first the woman, Martha, is hesitant to let the strangers into her home, a
petite white woman with a developmental disability and a deaf African American
man. Martha quickly sees the distress in their eyes and takes them in, clothes
and feeds them. Shortly after, the guards from the school are at her door
looking for the two escapees. Before she can assess the situation the
guards are removing the young woman and the young man, Homan, has
disappeared. As she struggles
against the guards, Lynnie, the young woman, tells Martha to “Hide her” Martha
is frozen and doesn’t know what to do but agrees. She then hears a cry and
finds a newborn baby in a basket in the attic.
The journey of Martha and the baby girl, Julia, takes them all over the
country. The story follows Martha, Lynnie and Homan through their separate lives
and always their constant thoughts of one another.
This was a pretty good book and kept me interested. However nothing about it stood out to me nor was remarkable.
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