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4.05 AVERAGE
4.05 AVERAGE
This was a hard book for me to get through. I want to believe that we have come a long way since 1969 and how we treat people with disabilities, BUT, I just don't think that we have.
Many thanks to Netgalley and St Martin's Press for this advanced readers copy.
Many thanks to Netgalley and St Martin's Press for this advanced readers copy.
challenging
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
emotional
hopeful
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
4.5 stars! I would have done the exact same thing. This book reinforces a good mother's love and to go to the ends of the Earth for your children to be protected.
In every post I see about this book through different publishers, I keep seeing that it was inspired by true events. I want to know who's events. I want to know about the inspiration, even though this is a fictional genre and titled a novel.
In every post I see about this book through different publishers, I keep seeing that it was inspired by true events. I want to know who's events. I want to know about the inspiration, even though this is a fictional genre and titled a novel.
This story makes me physically ill. To imagine that this story was based off a real school that allowed such inhumane care makes me sick. The book itself is great and an incredible showing of bravery.
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
My Thoughts: I was a little nervous about Keeping Lucy because I’ve had mixed results with T. Greenwood books, but I needn’t have worried. I liked this story very much and found Greenwood’s writing solid – just plain good storytelling. Lucy is a child born with Down’s Syndrome in 1969. Without giving her mother much of a choice, Lucy’s father and politically inclined grandfather had her whisked away to a “school” for children who were less than perfect. That premise was difficult to accept and I had to keep reminding myself that it was a different time and there wasn’t as much acceptance of children with differences as we find today. After two long years, Lucy’s mother Ginny comes to her rescue when horror stories about the school hit the newspapers.
The bulk of the story followed Ginny on a journey toward knowing her daughter, protecting her, and finding a life that included Lucy. At times I grew a little frustrated with Ginny, and had to remind myself that women had so many fewer choices in the early 70’s. I needed to give her a little leeway and was rooting for her as she grew stronger and more determined. A few times in the story Ginny had some incredibly, almost unbelievably, good luck, but I let that go. Keeping Lucy was a solid, easy-to-read story of a mother’s love and regret. The historical aspects around the treatment of children with Down’s Syndrome were a good reminder of how far we’ve come, but also how much more ground we could gain.
Note: I received a copy of this book from St. Martin’s Press (via NetGalley) in exchange for my honest review.
For more reviews and bookish news: https://novelvisits.com/
The bulk of the story followed Ginny on a journey toward knowing her daughter, protecting her, and finding a life that included Lucy. At times I grew a little frustrated with Ginny, and had to remind myself that women had so many fewer choices in the early 70’s. I needed to give her a little leeway and was rooting for her as she grew stronger and more determined. A few times in the story Ginny had some incredibly, almost unbelievably, good luck, but I let that go. Keeping Lucy was a solid, easy-to-read story of a mother’s love and regret. The historical aspects around the treatment of children with Down’s Syndrome were a good reminder of how far we’ve come, but also how much more ground we could gain.
Note: I received a copy of this book from St. Martin’s Press (via NetGalley) in exchange for my honest review.
For more reviews and bookish news: https://novelvisits.com/
3.5ish stars — this book is exactly what it promises. It’s a page-turner and suspenseful throughout; it is emotional, shocking, sad, hopeful, sweet and beautiful overall. The characters aren’t perfect but they’re less important than the conflicts of the story. This is a very entertaining book that provides hard history lessons on a shameful part of past society.
Ugh. This one was so so good and also so so sad. Such a beautiful story of a mother’s love. Reminds me of the thing my mom loves to tell me “Julie you can’t understand the love a mom has for their child until you have one of your own.” Also crazy to think not that long ago this was the way society reacted to people born with Down Syndrome… makes me sick to think about.