Camille

During the troubled period of the Great Depression and two wars, a deaf girl comes of age in a small rural town where the keeping offamily secrets often requires desperate measures. Camille is acomplex story of five people whose lives become a tangle of love,fear, secrecy, disappointment, and anger that nearly destroys all of them.Camille deftly dramatizes the tragic consequences of silence amongfamily and friends, but never relinquishes a belief that truth willsave them, even when...
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During the troubled period of the Great Depression and two wars, a deaf girl comes of age in a small rural town where the keeping offamily secrets often requires desperate measures. Camille is acomplex story of five people whose lives become a tangle of love,fear, secrecy, disappointment, and anger that nearly destroys all of them.Camille deftly dramatizes the tragic consequences of silence amongfamily and friends, but never relinquishes a belief that truth willsave them, even when natural and human forces are out of their control.