The Language of Light

A fourteen-year-old deaf boy and a German prisoner of war share a forbidden friendship built on pencil strokes and invented signs in the cotton fields of wartime Texas. Asa Pruitt has never been understood by anyone beyond his exhausted mother—until a captured art teacher named Willi Brauer begins sketching beside him. But when Asa overhears a murder plot by reading lips in a dark hayloft, he must find a way to make the hearing world listen before the only person who ever truly saw him is silenced forever.