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Winner of the 2012 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, playwright Nussbaum's debut novel opens with tenth-grader Yessenia Lopez narrating from the "punishment room" at the Illinois Learning and Life Skills Center (ILLC), a state-run nursing facility for adolescents with disabilities. Joanne Madsen, disabled by an accident, works as a data-entry clerk at the center and provides insight about the conditions she finds. Readers meet other residents ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More