Silence Author:Christopher Brookhouse Days before her high school graduation, Nicki Groh runs away from the New Hampshire town where she has grown up. In the months that follow, Nicki will find her way back home, a young woman much changed from her earlier self. — Harriet Groh, Nicki's adoptive mother, is the person most affected by Nicki's absence. Much of the story is told ... more »by her, and much of the story is about her, how she "disappears," too, from an earlier self and discovers her own voice, even if silence is the language in which she finds it.« less