During the troubled period of the Great Depression and two wars, a deaf girl comes of age in a small rural town where the keeping of family secrets often requires desperate measures. Camille is a complex story of five people whose lives become a tangle of love, fear, secrecy, disappointment, and anger that nearly destroys all of them. Camille deftly dramatizes the tragic consequences of silence among family ...Full description
During the troubled period of the Great Depression and two wars, a deaf girl comes of age in a small rural town where the keeping of family secrets often requires desperate measures. Camille is a complex story of five people whose lives become a tangle of love, fear, secrecy, disappointment, and anger that nearly destroys all of them. Camille deftly dramatizes the tragic consequences of silence among family and friends, but never relinquishes a belief that truth will save them, even when natural and human forces are out of their control.