Several Kinds of Silence

Sixteen-year-old Franny Yeager, the “good girl” of the family, tries to hide her burgeoning love for a Japanese-American boy since her father, laid off from his job, blames the Japanese. Complicating matters is the illness of her beloved grandmother, the only family member who understands her, with whom she shares a room.   Franny submerges her distress with controlled behavior, and finally gains a measure of escape in her work with a kind florist. Marilyn Singer writes movingly about silence, or the failure to communicate, and all the noise that people use to hide it.

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