![]() ![]() Rose has been deaf for as long as she can remember. The two stories weave back and forth masterfully before ultimately coming together. When Ben discovers a puzzling clue in his mother’s room, and Rose reads an enticing headline in the newspaper, both children set out alone on desperate quests to New York City to find what they are missing.īen’s story, set in 1977, is told mostly via prose, while Rose’s story, set fifty years earlier, is told mostly via pictures. ![]() A girl named Rose dreams of a mysterious actress whose life she chronicles in a scrapbook. This is what makes the book so enjoyable and authentic.Īn overview: A boy named Ben longs for the father he has never known. ![]() What makes it different from other books about the d/Deaf experience written by hearing authors? Simply this: Selznick approached the project not as a writer who wanted to write about characters with disabilities, but as a writer delving into an historical novel about Deaf Culture and language. Selznick published The Invention of Hugo Cabret in 2007, winning the Caldecott Medal and achieving a major movie adaptation years later, Selznick came back with Wonderstruck, which seems somehow even deeper and more multilayered. It is, to date, the most creative and ambitious novel about the d/Deaf experience in America I’ve ever come across. ![]()
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