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This story is set in a small town in Georgia in the 1930s. John Singer, who is deaf and mute, has lost his friend and roommate when Antonapoulos gets sent to an asylum. Singer, who reads lips, meets some lonely people at a local pub and at a roominghouse. He becomes the confidant of four troubled people and social reformers who tell him their hopes and dreams. Since these conversations are almost one-sided, in the troubled person's mind, the kind Singer is thought of as the one person who unders
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Amazing the way she gets into the heads of so many, so different characters.
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