Excerpt from Being Good About It by Aimee Loiselle
29/02/08 14:10
After her first year at Brown University, Beth returns
to Massachusetts for a summer job in a nursing home.
Her plan is to do something good while making money for
college. Despite her dark humor and self-deprecation,
Beth must confront the realities of Liberty Home and
make serious compromises to last through the summer.
Her determination forces her to treat many patients
with cold practicality and fuels an unwarranted desire
for approval from Kiki, an African-American woman who
questions Beth's legitimacy. Their antagonism erupts
when each woman drops a patient and their tension
becomes part of a corporate investigation.
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