Good Kings Bad Kings (CD-Audio)

from Hccpsk

Very enjoyable book about a subject that not many people would seek out--a nursing home for disabled children. Told from multiple POVs the author does a wonderful job of capturing a variety of voices and stories that begin scattered and disconnected, but end woven nicely together. Aspects of the ...

from kbeck124

Good Kings Bad Kings by Susan Nussbaum is a story about disabled children/teens who are living in a state run care facility. The story is told in first person account by various characters, both the residents and the employees. I found that this book and its characters definitely drew me in. It's...

from bookmuse56

I always look forward to reading the Bellwether winner as the winner will be a literary fiction book that addresses issues of social justice. This book is the story of residents and employees of the Illinois Learning and Life Skills Center or as it was known to all ILLC, a nursing home for disabl...

from LynnB

Good Kings Bad Kings is the story of seven people: disabled children and young adults in live in an institution and people who work with them. Each chapter is narrated by one of these characters, and this style works well for this story. The reader is able to come to know the characters much bett...

from EvelynBernard

Good Kings, Bad Kings is the winner of the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction - and deservedly so. This novel tells the stories, in a series of alternating voices, of the residents and staff of the Illinois Learning and Life Skills Centre - an institution for juveniles with disabil...