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Dalton, John, 1963-
Subjects
Camp counselors -- Fiction.
Camps -- Fiction.
Disfigured persons -- Fiction.
Life change events -- Fiction.
Developmentally disabled -- Rehabilitation -- Fiction.
Missouri -- Fiction.
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Dalton, John, 1963-
Camp counselors -- Fiction.
Camps -- Fiction.
Disfigured persons -- Fiction.
Life change events -- Fiction.
Developmentally disabled -- Rehabilitation -- Fiction.
Missouri -- Fiction.
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The inverted forest : a novel / John Dalton.
by
Dalton, John, 1963-
Scribner, c2011.
Call #:
FICTION
DAL
Subjects
Camp counselors
--
Fiction
.
Camps
--
Fiction
.
Disfigured persons
--
Fiction
.
Life change events
--
Fiction
.
Developmentally
disabled
--
Rehabilitation
--
Fiction
.
Missouri
--
Fiction
.
ISBN:
9781416596028
141659602X
Description:
325 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"Late on a warm summer night in rural Missouri, an elderly camp director hears a squeal of joyous female laughter and goes to investigate. At the camp swimming pool he comes upon a bewildering scene: his counselors stripped naked and engaged in a provocative celebration. The first camp session is set to start in just two days. He fires them all. As a result, new counselors must be quickly hired and brought to the Kindermann Forest Summer Camp. One of them is Wyatt Huddy, a genetically disfigured young man who has been living in a Salvation Army facility. Gentle and diligent, large and imposing, Wyatt suffers a deep anxiety that his intelligence might be subnormal. All his life he's been misjudged because of his irregular features. But while Wyatt is not worldly, he is also not an innocent. He has escaped a punishing home life with a reclusive and violent older sister. Along with the other new counselors, Wyatt arrives expecting to care for children. To their astonishment, they learn that for the first two weeks of the camping season they will be responsible for 104 severely
developmentally
disabled
adults, all of them wards of the state. For Wyatt it is a dilemma that turns his world inside out. Physically, he is indistinguishable from the state hospital campers he cares for. Inwardly, he would like to believe he is not of their tribe. Fortunately for Wyatt, there is a young woman on staff who understands his predicament better than he might have hoped. At once the new counselors and
disabled
campers begin to reveal themselves. Most are well-intentioned; others unprepared. Some harbor dangerous inclinations. Among the campers is a perplexing array of ailments and appearances and behavior both tender and disturbing. To encounter them is to be reminded just how wide the possibilities are when one is describing human beings. Soon Wyatt is called upon to prevent a terrible tragedy. In doing so, he commits an act whose repercussions will alter his own life and the lives of the other Kindermann Forest staff members for years to come."--Publisher.
Genre:
Psychological
fiction
.
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