Laura Little’s escape from a Texas Sanitarium for the Curable and Incurable in a fast-paced prologue is a brilliant introduction to her determination and courage.  When she departs through an open window, she leaves the office of the sanitarium’s director a shambles behind her.  The director himself is lying facedown on the floor, his wrists bound with shoelaces.  A rolled


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