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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