The powerful and inspiring debut from Susan Nussbaum, the winner of Barbara Kingsolver's PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, 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. Susan Nussbaum’s debut novel, winner of the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, is, as Rosellen Brown says, “a celebration of strength, dignity, and the cathartic pleasure of telling it like it is.” Set in a nursing home for young adults with disabilities, . 10 rows · · Good Kings Bad Kings PDF book by Susan Nussbaum Read Online or Free Download in ePUB, Author: Susan Nussbaum.
Good Kings, Bad Kings, a novel by Susan Nussbaum, shares a collection of narratives told from the viewpoint of each character. The first narrative is told by Yessenia Lopez. Yessenia had been confined to a wheelchair, but that did not stop her from brutally beating a fellow student who mouthed off to her. Susan Nussbaum's next act. The celebrated playwright and disability rights activist put down her pen for nearly a decade. But in a new novel, Good Kings Bad Kings, she picks back up where she. Susan Nussbaum, Chicago Author, Talks Success Of Debut Novel 'Good Kings Bad Kings' By Joseph Erbentraut When it comes to her award-winning " Good Kings Bad Kings," Chicago author and disability rights activist Susan Nussbaum marvels that the book -- the accomplished playwright's first novel -- was published at all, much less that it's been so.
Good Kings Bad Kings by Susan Nussbaum. likes. winner of PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Good Kings, Bad Kings Susan Nussbaum This work of fiction is about a group of disabled teens in a residential facility and the people who work there. It is the first work of fiction that I have read that treats the characters with disabilities as full fledged characters who have the double whammy of their physical or mental issues plus society’s discounting them or not seeing them. 'Good Kings, Bad Kings' is set in an American nursing home for disabled adolescents - from the moderately well off to those 'charity cases' who have no family to care for them. Like much of the health provision in the USA, it is run on a terrifyingly commercial basis, with no real attention paid to individuals, who are treated as 'bad children' or as victims.
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