Zoo of Human Frailties is a study of a family disintegration after the loss of one of its members as seen through the eyes of a young girl. The book opens as Lovetta's father abandons her at an insane asylum in the years immediately preceding World War I. As we go through her experiences growing up on the farm, we learn what occurred in the family to cause her to be disposable. All the things she lives through, abuse, archaic medication, primitive surgery, neglect, hunger, Spanish flu, all cause her to find the strength to escape and find the only family she has left.
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