King of the Armadillos
Wendy Chin-Tanner, 2023
CALL NO...: 12-BOO
TYPE......: Book
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A Chinese American teenager is sent to the Carville leprosarium in 1950s Louisiana, the last such facility in the continental US. Based on the author's father's life, and a rare novel about medical quarantine as a lived community. Winner of the Louisiana Literary Award.
FictionChronic IllnessDisability HistoryIntersectionality
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Available at many public libraries and from Flatiron Books.