44 Years in Darkness: A True Story of Madness, Tragedy, and Shattered Love by Sylvia Shults

44 Years in Darkness: A True Story of Madness, Tragedy, and Shattered Love

Sylvia Shults

210 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction true crime dark emotional sad medium-paced
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In the later part of the nineteenth century, Rhoda Derry spent over forty years in the Adams County Poor Farm, curled in a fetal position in a box bed. She had clawed her own eyes out. She had beat her front teeth in. Her legs had atrophied to the...

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