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In 1950, after turning eleven, Susan Richards Shreve was admitted to the Warm Springs sanitarium in Georgia, a facility founded by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to care for children afflicted by polio. While there, she encounters Joey Buckley, a boy paralyzed from the waist down who dreams of playing football. The experience forces her to confront love, rebellion, and the expectations of her protective mother, leading to a profound personal transformation. Her stay coincides with the discovery of the first polio vaccine by Jonas Salk, placing her among the last generation of Americans to survive childhood polio through such institutions.
First publish date: 2007
Genre: Memoir/Personal Memoir
Authors: Susan Shreve
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