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DEBUT Briton Marsh's beautifully written debut unfolds the story of Ellen Lark in a series of flashbacks. After Ellen loses her hearing from scarlet fever in mid-1800s New England, she and her family communicate with their own "home signs," as well as lip reading, which Ellen learns at Oral School. Eventually confronted with the Visible Speech method at Professor Alexander Graham Bell's School of Oratory at...Log In or Sign Up to Read More