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Blog Tour: The Degenerates by J. Albert Mann (Spotlight+ Giveaway!)

Posted March 12, 2020 by Kaity in Book Tours, Bookstagram, Giveaways, Spotlight / 0 Comments

Blog Tour: The Degenerates by J. Albert Mann (Spotlight+ Giveaway!)

Happy Thursday and welcome to my stop on the The Degenerates blog tour!! I am so excited to be a part of this tour, and I’m even more excited for you to discover this wonderful book! Plus, follow the rest of the tour and enter to win a print copy of The Degenerates!

Blog Tour: The Degenerates by J. Albert Mann (Spotlight+ Giveaway!)The Degenerates by J. Albert Mann
Published on March 17, 2020 by Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Genres: Historical Fiction, YA, Queer
Pages: 288
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In the tradition of Girl, Interrupted, this fiery historical novel follows four young women in the early 20th century whose lives intersect when they are locked up by a world that took the poor, the disabled, the marginalized—and institutionalized them for life.
The Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded is not a happy place. The young women who are already there certainly don’t think so. Not Maxine, who is doing everything she can to protect her younger sister Rose in an institution where vicious attendants and bullying older girls treat them as the morons, imbeciles, and idiots the doctors have deemed them to be. Not Alice, either, who was left there when her brother couldn’t bring himself to support a sister with a club foot. And not London, who has just been dragged there from the best foster situation she’s ever had, thanks to one unexpected, life altering moment. Each girl is determined to change her fate, no matter what it takes.

J. Albert Mann is the author of six novels for children, with S&S Atheneum Books for Young Readers set to publish her next work of historical fiction about the Eugenics Movement and the rise of institutionalism in the United States. She is also the author of short stories and poems for children featured in Highlights for Children, where she won the Highlights Fiction Award, as well as the Highlights Editors’ Choice Award. She has an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts in Writing for Children and Young Adults, and is the Director of the WNDB Internship Grant Committee.
Jennifer is represented by Kerry Sparks at Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency.

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I can’t wait to read this book! Let me know what you think of it in the comments and have a splendiferous day!

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