Having lost his librarian mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City. Rose, also a deaf child, dreams of a mysterious actress whose life she chronicles in a scrapbook in Hoboken in 1927. Set 50 years apart, these two independent stories--Ben's told in words, Rose's in pictures--weave back and forth.
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