Winnie: My Life in the Institution

By Jamie Pastor-Bolnick

Book Overview

Winnie Sprockett was just six years old in 1938 when she was committed by her stepmother to a state institution for mentally retarded females, where she remained for most of her life. Her parents had... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312882300
• ISBN13: 9780312882303
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

the book winnie my life in the institution is wonderful

I have read this book over and over. It is so well written and the story is out of this world. I wrote my own memiours because of this book and I also started getting kids to visit me from and Orphanage because of this book.It will change your thinking so much. I love this story!!

Winnie: My Life in the Institution

If this book doesn't move you, check your pulse. My heart was turned and twisted every page as Winnie told her story. With moments of joy, sorrow, anger, and more times than not disappointment with the way society treated this unfortunate, very human, being. I wish, dear Lord, I wish I could have known her even for one day. How much richer my life would be. I never wanted the book to end. How sad for those who came into her life, even those who gave her life, and never saw her beauty in this world.