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Icy is only 10 years old the first time the sudden itching, the pressure squeezing her skull, and the "little invisible rubber bands" attached to her eyelids that indicate symptoms of Tourette's syndrome happens. She doesn't have a name for these unsettling impulses, but wheneve…
Icy is only 10 years old the first time the sudden itching, the pressure squeezing her skull, and the "little invisible rubber bands" attached to her eyelids that indicate symptoms of Tourette's syndrome happens. She doesn't have a name for these unsettling impulses, but wheneve…
Rural Kentucky in the 1950s is not an easy place to grow up, and it's especially hard for ten-year-old Icy Sparks, an orphan who lives with her grandparents. Life becomes even more difficult for Icy when violent tics and uncontrollable cursing begin--symptoms of Tourette Syndrom…
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At the age of 10, an Appalachian girl develops croaks, jerks and spasms, which leads to her expulsion from school. After treatment--she has Tourette's syndrome--she learns to control herself, attends college and there is a happy ending.
At the age of ten, an Appalachian girl develops croaks, jerks and spasms, which leads to her explusion from school. After treatment--she has Tourette's syndrome--she learns to control herself, attends college and there is a happy ending. Rural Kentucky in the 1950s is not an ea…
The Sumner family can read the signs: the droughts and floods, the blighted crops, the shortages, the rampant diseases and plagues, and, above all, the increasing sterility all point to one thing. Their isolated farm in the Appalachian Mountains gives them the ideal place to sur…