![]() “The babies’ parents had to ring a bell at the gate and wait for the guard to let them inside.” As much exposé as biography, Miller’s book is a propulsive account of what life in that hospital was like for the girls, who lived there until they were nine years old, receiving necessary treatment for their initial fragility, certainly, but also serving as both a science experiment and as a tourist attraction, with thousands of visitors lining up daily for a chance to observe the “quints” at play. The “tragedy” is pretty much everything else about their story, with the baby girls taken from their parents to be raised in a custom-built hospital led by the dedicated-and controlling-Dr. ![]() The “miracle” referred to in the title was of course the birth of the five identical Dionne sisters in Ontario in 1934, the first time quintuplets were known to survive. Middle School, High School Schwartz & Wade/Random 309 pp. The Miracle & Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets ![]()
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