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The bright unknown, Elizabeth Byler Younts ; read by Devon O'Day

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The bright unknown

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Elizabeth Byler Younts ; read by Devon O'Day

Pennsylvania, 1940s. The only life Brighton Friedrich has ever known is the one she has endured within the dreary walls of Riverside Home, the rural asylum where she was born. A nurse, Joann, has educated and raised Brighton, whose mother is a patient at the hospital. But Joann has also kept vital information from Brighton, information that if ever revealed would illuminate Brighton's troubling past and the circumstances that confine her to Riverside. Brighton's best friend is a boy she calls Angel and as they grow up together and face the bleak future that awaits them, they grow determined to make a daring escape. Nothing can prepare Brighton and Angel for life beyond Riverside's walls. They have no legal identities, very little money and only a few leads toward a safe place to land. As they struggle to survive in a world they've never seen before, they must rely on each other and the kindness of strangers, some of whom may prove more dangerous than the asylum they've fled

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