And the many suspenseful questions in the girl's story turned out to be pretty bland. The boy's mother was set up by the author to be an admirable woman, but it turned out she single-handedly placed her son in all his orphaned misery, and the author expects every character involved in the tragedy to continue to overlook that and admire her. Unfortunately, the answers to these questions were a great letdown. I strongly sympathized with the boy's plight. I liked the beginning of the book it set up a sense of expectation and suspense over who the boy's father was and why was he never around, as well as suspense over who the girl was and why was she obsessed with the actress she avidly read about.

It’s such an amazing book that I can see myself recommending it over and over again. And, as usual with books that continuously make it through multiple purges, I can’t believe I waited as long as I did to read it. This has been on my TBR list for quite some time. This book is amazing and I love it so much. The pages were showing the life of someone who is Deaf, and because of this, I thought, there was so much detail. The illustrations of the novel were beautiful and you really had to stop and take a look at all the details. With half the story told in beautiful black and white illustrations and the other in traditional typed words, this novel is a very quick read - I myself read it over the course of an afternoon. Told in dual perspectives - Ben’s story in words and Rose’s story in pictures, the two weave back and forth in symmetry before finding the missing link. Both set off for journeys in New York, desperate to find what they are missing. Rose, in 1927, dreams of a mysterious actress whose life she’s pasted into a scrapbook. Ben, in 1977, longs for his father he’s never known, especially after his mother dies in a car accident. Ben and Rose both dream of a different and better life.

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