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Jul 21, 2019EljayJohnson rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
There is a heartbreaking, incisive novel that could be written about our very recent shameful history of institutionalizing in wretched conditions our disabled and different members of our communities. This, however, is not that book. This was a Lifetime Movie/Hallmark Special treatment of that subject, with an at times preposterously contrived plot filled with almost hilariously unbelievable elements and coincidences. This isn't to say I hated this; I can like and be manipulated by a Hallmark Special as much as the next sappy weeper. But I would have preferred the story of Lynnie and her love Homan to have been treated more realistically and truthfully. That would have been a better book than this.