RACHEL SIMON - The Story of Beautiful Girl
02/19/2012 4:00 pm
 | Award-Winning Author |
The Indiebound bestseller The Story of Beautiful Girl is now in paperback, and we're thrilled to bring Rachel Simon to Austin to share it with us. A New York Times bestseller and one of Oprah Winfrey's "Ten Titles to Pick Up Now" last summer, this novel has been celebrated as a deft combination of love story and story of social accountability. 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. Rachel Simon is an award-winning author and nationally known public speaker. She is best known for her critically acclaimed, bestselling memoir Riding The Bus with My Sister, which was adapted for a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie of the same name. The book has garnered numerous awards, and is a frequent and much beloved selection of many book clubs, school reading programs, and city-wide reads throughout the country. In order to have anything signed at a BookPeople event, a copy of the event book must be purchased from BookPeople. If you purchase your book from BookPeople in advance of the event, please save your receipt and present it at the event. Thank you for supporting Rachel Simon, and your local independent bookstore! | |
Location:
- Street:
- 603 N Lamar Blvd
- City:
- Austin ,
- Province:
- Texas
- Postal Code:
- 78703-5413
- Country:
- United States
