There have been a number of recent accounts of young people who were sent to schools for so-called “troubled” kids. “The Home for Wayward Girls” by debut novelist Marcia Bradley takes an inside-out approach to the concept by following a young woman named Loretta, who calls one of these facilities home because it’s at the ranch where she lives with her parents, who also run it.
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