Silent History The

Both a bold storytelling experiment and a propulsive reading experience Eli Horowitz Matthew Derby and Kevin Moffett''s The Silent History is at once thrilling timely and timeless. A generation of children forced to live without words. It begins as a statistical oddity: a spike in children born with acute speech delays. Physically normal in every way these children never speak and do not respond to speech; they don''t learn to read don''t learn to write. As the number of cases grows to an epidemic level theories spread. Maybe it''s related to a popular antidepressant; maybe it''s environmental. Or maybe these children have special skills all their own. The Silent History unfolds in a series of brief testimonials from parents teachers friends doctors cult leaders profiteers and impostors (everyone except of course the children themselves) documenting the growth of the so-called silent community into an elusive enigmatic force in itself―alluring to some threatening to others.