By Chris Struyk-Bonn
ISBN-10: 1459804775
ISBN-13: 9781459804777
Sixteen-year-old Whisper, who has a cleft palate, lives in an encampment with 3 different younger rejects and their caregiver, Nathanael. they're outcasts from a society (in the not-too-distant destiny) that kills or abandons somebody with a actual or psychological incapacity. Whisper's mom visits annually. while she dies, she leaves Whisper a violin, which Nathanael teaches her to play. Whisper's father involves declare her, and she or he turns into his condominium slave, her disfigurement hidden through a black veil. but if she proves rebellious, she is taken to town to stay with different rejects at a home known as Purgatory Palace, the place she has to make tricky judgements for herself and for her susceptible pals.
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