Iris cannot help but compare 55’s story to her own. Therefore, he is alone in the dark waters of the Pacific without a family or pod, a group of whales. He cannot communicate to the other whales. One day, in science class the teacher plays a video about a hybrid whale who goes by Blue 55, he has yet to be tagged and is only followed by his unique song.īlue 55 is the son of two different kinds of whales so his song doesn’t match any other whale songs. She attends a regular public school that is full of “normal” kids, she is the only one who has to around with an interpreter, it is hard for Iris to fit in. The disability seemed to have skipped a generation, so Iris is the only one in her home that is deaf, her mother and older brother know American Sign Language but her father still struggles with communicating with her as he says that languages are not his thing but numbers are, eye roll. It runs in her family as both of her maternal grandparents are deaf as well.
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