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An Award-Winning AuthorMary Lambert has always felt safe on Martha's Vineyard. Her great-great-grandfather was an early English settler and the first deaf islander. Now, over a hundred years later, many people there — including Mary — are deaf. Mary is proud of her lineage. But recent events have delivered winds of change. Mary's brother died, leaving her family shattered. Tensions are mounting between English settlers and the Wampanoag people. And a cunning young scientist has arrived, hoping to discover the origin of the island's prevalent deafness. His drive to find answers soon renders Mary a specimen in a cruel experiment. Her struggle to save herself will make you forever question your own ideas about what is normal.

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LeZotte crafts a moving tale of 1805 Martha's Vineyard that highlights issues still relevant more than 200 years later, including racism, ableism, and prejudice.

LeZotte weaves threads of adventure, family tragedy, community, racism, and hearing people's negative assumptions about Deaf people into a beautiful and complex whole.... A vivid depiction of Deaf community along with an exciting plot and beautiful prose

LeZotte ... deftly connects the islanders' prejudice against the Wampanoag to the mainlanders' view of deaf individuals as lesser.

LeZotte's depiction of language is striking -- the reader sees the difference in conversations in spoken English and MVSL -- and she thoughtfully addresses tensions among the white, Black, and Wampanoag people who share the island. LeZotte ... makes the

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