Mary Lambert has always felt safe and protected on her beloved island of Martha\"s Vineyard. Her great-great-grandfather was an early English settler and the first deaf islander. Now, over a hundred years later, many people there - including Mary - are deaf, and nearly everyone can communicate in sign language. Mary has never felt isolated....

Mary Lambert has always felt safe and protected on her beloved island of Martha\"s Vineyard. Her great-great-grandfather was an early English settler and the first deaf islander. Now, over a hundred years later, many people there - including Mary - are deaf, and nearly everyone can communicate in sign language. Mary has never felt isolated....

Three years after being kidnapped as a \\\"live specimen\\\" in a cruel experiment to determine the cause of her deafness, Mary Lambert has grown weary of domestic life on Martha\"s Vineyard, and even of her once beloved writing....