Bird-Eyes
by Madelyn Arnold
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In 1963, being different can be illegal-as sixteen-year-old Latisha, a lesbian runaway, discovers when she is sentenced to treatment in the locked ward of a mental hospital for being "incorrigible" and a threat to society. Her best friend in the ward is Anna, an older deaf woman committed for depression. Although she's forbidden to communicate in sign language, Anna teaches Latisha and gives her a name: "Bird-Eyes." Their growing friendship and their alliance against the hospital oppression show more forms a bond that is the catalyst for Latisha's eventual act of defiance. A brilliant novel of friendship and defiance, of passion and resistance. show lessTags
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- Fiction and Literature, LGBTQ+, General Fiction, Teen, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Suspense & Thriller
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- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
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- PS3551 .R535 .B56 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
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