The Degenerates
by J. Albert Mann
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Synopsis:
The Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded is not a happy place. The young women who are already there certainly don’t think so. Not Maxine, who is doing everything she can to protect her younger sister Rose in an institution where vicious attendants and bullying older girls treat them as the morons, imbeciles, and idiots the doctors have deemed them to be. Not Alice, either, who was left there when her brother couldn’t bring himself to support a sister with a club foot. And not London, who has just been dragged there from the best foster situation she’s ever had, thanks to one unexpected, life altering moment. Each girl is determined to change her fate, no matter what it takes.
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51890619
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Reader
Genre: Young Adult, Historical Fiction
Release Date: March 17th 2020
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J. Albert Mann is the author of six novels for children, with S&S Atheneum Books for Young Readers set to publish her next work of historical fiction about the Eugenics Movement and the rise of institutionalism in the United States. She is also the author of short stories and poems for children featured in Highlights for Children, where she won the Highlights Fiction Award, as well as the Highlights Editors’ Choice Award. She has an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts in Writing for Children and Young Adults, and is the Director of the WNDB Internship Grant Committee.
Jennifer is represented by Kerry Sparks at Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency.
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Purchase Links:
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46404362-the-degenerates
Amazon: https://amzn.to/38Qx6dD
B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-degenerates-j-albert-mann/1132189225#/
iTunes: https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-degenerates/id1470017404
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Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-degenerates-4
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Review:
The Degenerates follows the lives of five young girls who are institutionalized because they are believed to be morons and imbeciles. Once girls enter this institution they never leave. There, they are treated poorly and punished harshly. Their situations are heartbreaking. This will not be an easy read.
Wow.. in this well done work of fiction Mann introduces us to five characters who are considered incapable of living a normal life. We follow a very brief period of their lives and experience a small portion of what they've gone through. The situations in this book are so well detailed. It's easy to imagine the poor girls in this book struggling through their daily lives, trying to find joy in the smallest ways. The writing is excellent and draws a force of strong emotions. This book will break your heart and make you enraged. If you're looking for a book about girls who beat the system and get a better life, than you should consider picking up something else. If you want something raw and superbly written, than this is the book you're looking for.
While this was an emotionally charged, fast read it isn't going to be for everybody. Once again, if you're looking for a happy wraped-up ending this won't give you that. I'd recommend this book to anyone who enjoys well written, engaging stories about difficult topics and situations.
The Degenerates follows the lives of five young girls who are institutionalized because they are believed to be morons and imbeciles. Once girls enter this institution they never leave. There, they are treated poorly and punished harshly. Their situations are heartbreaking. This will not be an easy read.
Wow.. in this well done work of fiction Mann introduces us to five characters who are considered incapable of living a normal life. We follow a very brief period of their lives and experience a small portion of what they've gone through. The situations in this book are so well detailed. It's easy to imagine the poor girls in this book struggling through their daily lives, trying to find joy in the smallest ways. The writing is excellent and draws a force of strong emotions. This book will break your heart and make you enraged. If you're looking for a book about girls who beat the system and get a better life, than you should consider picking up something else. If you want something raw and superbly written, than this is the book you're looking for.
While this was an emotionally charged, fast read it isn't going to be for everybody. Once again, if you're looking for a happy wraped-up ending this won't give you that. I'd recommend this book to anyone who enjoys well written, engaging stories about difficult topics and situations.
Author Bio
Jennifer is represented by Kerry Sparks at Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency.
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I know this will be emotional and not a happily ever after story, but it sounds so good. I'm glad to hear that you liked it.
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