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Loading... Mannequin Girl: A Novel (edition 2014)by Ellen Litman
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A coming-of-age novel with a unique perspective- growing up handicapped in Moscow in the 1980s. Very likable novel ( ) This was a pretty bleak book about growing up in the Soviet Union with scoliosis. The main character was a much loved little girl, but she gets scoliosis and has to go to a government run hospital school where she is lonely and the people there staff and students alike are pretty miserable. her grandmother is a nightmare - she and her father visit on the weekends where they are mercilessly berated. meanwhile the mother wants another baby but that is not to be. The whole thing was grim. no reviews | add a review
Growing up in Soviet Russia, Kat Knopman worships her parents, Jewish intellectuals who teach literature at a Moscow school, run a drama club, and dabble in political radicalism. When Kat is diagnosed with rapidly-progressing scoliosis, the trajectory of her life changes and she finds herself at a different institution-- a school-sanatorium for children with spinal ailments. Confined to a brace, surrounded by unsympathetic peers, Kat embarks on a quest to prove that she can be as exceptional as her parents despite her physical limitations, her Jewishness, and her suspicion that her beloved parents are in fact flawed. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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