Two parallel stories, one told with words, one told with pictures.
It is 1977 and Ben, who is twelve and deaf in one ear, sits in the bedroom his shares with his crabby cousin at his aunt and uncle’s Minnesota lake side cabin. He misses his mother terribly. She died three months ago in a car crash. Just 88 steps away is the cabin he shared with his mother. When he sees a light from her bedroom window, he goes to investigate and finds several
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things she kept hidden from him. Things about the father he never met. Ben decides to go to Manhattan to find his dad.
Far away and fifty years earlier in Hoboken, New Jersey, Rose, who is also twelve and deaf, stares out her window at the Manhattan skyline, yearning for her mother, a silent film star. She is almost imprisoned in her room by her overbearing father. Her parents are divorced and her mother remarried. Rose passes her time
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