Nightingale

✍ Scribed by Lukavics, Amy

• Publisher: Harlequin Teen
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 142 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: Don Mills, Ontario
• ISBN: 1488095248

✦ Synopsis

**"Takes a slice of mid-twentieth-century Americana and exposes it as an utter and ongoing gender inequality nightmare. Electric, tense, horrifying, and a righteously angry yowl."
--Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Cabin at the End of the World
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At seventeen, June Hardie is everything a young woman in 1951 shouldn't be--independent, rebellious, a dreamer. June longs to travel, to attend college and to write the dark science fiction stories that consume her waking hours. But her parents only care about making June a better young woman. Her mother grooms her to be a perfect little homemaker while her father pushes her to marry his business partner's domineering son. When June resists, her whole world is shattered--suburbia isn't the only prison for different women...
June's parents commit her to Burrow Place Asylum, aka the Institution. With its sickening conditions, terrifying staff and brutal "medical...

✦ Subjects

Mental institutions -- Juvenile fiction