What is T. Greenwood reading?

Featured at Writers Read: T. Greenwood, author of Keeping Lucy: A Novel.

Her entry begins:

Because I am a teacher as well as a writer, I don't have a lot of time for pleasure reading during the school year. I save most of my TBR list for the summers when I am at our cabin in Vermont. I usually fill a banker's box with books as well as load up my Kindle and renew my library card in anticipation.

This summer I have read about eight books so far. I just finished Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys which, like Keeping Lucy, was based on a real (and now defunct) house of horrors -- a reform school for wayward boys. It is a spare book, but packs a potent punch. This was my...[read on]

About Keeping Lucy, from the publisher:

Dover, Massachusetts, 1969. Ginny Richardson's heart was torn open when her baby girl, Lucy, born with Down Syndrome, was taken from her. Under pressure from his powerful family, her husband, Ab, sent Lucy away to Willowridge, a special school for the “feeble-minded." Ab tried to convince Ginny it was for the best. That they should grieve for their daughter as though she were dead. That they should try to move on.

But two years later, when Ginny's best friend, Marsha, shows her a series of articles exposing Willowridge as a hell-on-earth--its squalid hallways filled with neglected children--she knows she can't leave her daughter there. With Ginny's six-year-old son in tow, Ginny and Marsha drive to the school to see Lucy for themselves. What they find sets their course on a heart-racing journey across state lines—turning Ginny into a fugitive.

For the first time, Ginny must test her own strength and face the world head-on as she fights Ab and his domineering father for the right to keep Lucy. Racing from Massachusetts to the beaches of Atlantic City, through the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia to a roadside mermaid show in Florida, Keeping Lucy is a searing portrait of just how far a mother’s love can take her.

Based on incredible true events, Keeping Lucy is the searing, heartfelt, and breathtaking story of just how far a mother’s love can take her.

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