It took me a while to get into this book, but by the end of it I was totally hook and involved with the characters and their love and loss journeys. It starts in 1968 where Lynnie, a young white woman with a developmental disability, and Homan, an African American deaf man, are locked away in an institution, the School for the Incurable and Feebleminded. They have been long forgotten by their families. But they have fallen in love and manage to escape the school. They find refuge in the farmhouse of Martha, a retired schoolteacher and widow. But the couple is not alone, Lynnie has just had a baby girl. The baby is not Homan's but a result from a horrible night caused by School officials. The police have caught up with them, Lynnie is caught and Homan goes on the run. Before leaving Lynnie manages to get out the words, "Hide her." So this is exactly what Martha does. The rest of the book is a 40-year journey of Lynnie, Homan, Martha, and baby Julia to figure out where the paths of love and loss cross.
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