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Sep 06, 2020Tigard_HollyCP rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
It is 1805. Twelve-year-old Mary Lambert is deaf, like many of the people in Chilmark on Martha’s Vineyard. Everyone in her village, hearing or deaf, communicates with sign language. When a scientist comes to the village to study what caused this “affliction,” Mary realizes that in other parts of the world, deaf people are not viewed as they are in Chilmark. Extensively researched and sensitively written by deaf author, Ann Clare LeZotte, this story is about so much more than deafness: the grief over the loss of Mary’s teenage brother, conflict in land ownership values between English settlers and the Wampanoag people, racism toward the Wampanoag and Black freedmen, kidnapping, seafaring, scientific study in colonial times.