โ Scribed by Romain, Dianne
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
When Callie Quinn became pregnant at seventeen in 1960s rural Missouri, her outraged father, with her motherโs acquiescence, insisted that no one knowโand Callie complied. She went away, and she gave up her baby. But not for their reasons. She did it to protect the babyโs fatherโa black teenโfrom the eraโs racist violence. Decades later, now a translator in Mexico, Callie and her closeted gay friend, Armando, search for his missing dog. Worried that Armando will lose his Paris love, too, if he doesnโt come out, Callie invents a tale of her fiancรฉโs inconvenient death in his closet. Meanwhile, her true losses remain as hidden as the river that winds beneath Guanajuatoโs historic center. When Pamela, a musician whose music flows from her heart, enters Callieโs life, Callie takes up the trumpetโand begins to dream of opening her own heart. But instead she remains silent, hiding her longing and risking giving up everyone she dares to love in order to safeguard her secret. Callie tells herself she does so to protect her daughter, but ultimately, in order to speak, she must confront the deepest reasons for her silenceโthe ones sheโs been concealing even from herself.
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