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review Good Kings Bad Kings 103 × ❴Reading❵ ➸ Good Kings Bad Kings Author Susan Nussbaum – Gwairsoft.co.uk Bellwether Award winner Susan Nussbaum’s powerful novel invites us into the lives of a group of typical teenagers—alienated funny yearning for autonomy—except that they live in an institution fo Bellwether Award winner SuHave little or no control over their fate Good Kings Bad Kings challenges our definitions of what it means to be disabled in a story told with remarkable authenticity and in voices that resound with humor and spirit. This is a very realistic view of private residences for disabled youth They are created to serve children with physical and or psychological and mental challenges and uickly become cash cows for unscrupulous investors and greedy lazy doctors I saw this first hand almost 40 years ago when I worked in a similar institution which employed milieu therapy which means no therapySusan Nussbaum the author has the advantage of being born able and later on being hit by a bus She is able to breathe life into the character of Joanne who also was hit by a bus Ms Nussbaum used her experiences working with others who belong to the special club crips to people Good King Bad King The young people become awards of the state because their parents physically financially and emotionally are unable to care for them These teens are fierce and frail having survived the School of Hard Knocks Their academic deficits are rarely addressed in their especially bad education The State is deaf and blind to the needs of a community which no one wants to seeThat being said many of these down and out children are resilient For every scheming predator there is an underpaid overworked houseparent teacher Legal Aid lawyer to offer support and guidanceParts but not all of this very realistic novel are grim It is truly the story of man against himself kids fighting their own bodies and man against society kids fighting to be seen heard and respected Nussbaum is inspired by her characters and hopes to give hope to those who fight

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Bellwether Award winner Susan Nussbaum’s powerful novel invites us into the lives of a group of typical teenagers alienated funny yearning Good Kings eBook #8608 for autonomy except that they live in an institution. A group of mentally and physically challenged young people take center stage in this novel It is set in a nursing home on the South Side of Chicago and is told in alternating chapters between seven characters the patients and those who work for the company that administers the facility The author herself is wheelchair bound after a serious accident so she knows what she writes This book has an agenda but it is so skillfully rendered that one is entertained or indignant but not annoyedOne of the employees receives three hundred for every bed she fills in the facility and she spends her nights scoping out shelters to see if she can find any clientele These are kids some severely disabled many mentally challenged and some that have been abused and yet they think about the same things we do They want meaningful relationships people to tell them the truth power wheelchairs so that they can move when they want instead of when someone else wants They want all the freedom they can have within their disability Some of it is downright funny but I felt somewhat irreverent laughing but I think that was the point These kids are sad they are funny they are many things As Yessinia says If this is an award of the state you can have your awardA well done book that everyone should read

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Good Kings Bad KingsFor juveniles with disabilities This unfamiliar isolated landscape is much the same as the world outside friendships are forged trust is built love affairs are kindled and rules are broken But those who call it home. I have very mixed feelings about this book which is narrated by a cast of characters involved in a public home for teenagers with disabilities in Illinois On one hand I feel very positively about it in the sense that Nussbaum herself a disability activist does a great job humanizing the lives and the plights of these often forgotten and dehumanized individuals She does an excellent job creating a variety of believable voices However and contrary to the views of an interviewer of Nussbaum I read just today I found the book extremely didactic It seemed that many characters were there to serve the purpose of yelling at the reader Look at how horrible this is Mia epitomizes victimhood; Joanne is the crusader who is going to expose the horrendously malfunctioning system; Michelle is the almost willfully ignorant woman who thinks she is doing good but is really undermining all of the children Indeed the system IS horrible and I actually think this book can do a lot for opening peoples' eyes to this fact; I just wish it hadn't felt uite so obvious in doing so