When actor Elle Tuckerman loses her voice and her role off-Broadway, she flees to Tucson to help her ailing, enigmatic mother. Adjusting to her new reality, as well as the unfamiliar Southwestern landscape, she works with asylum seekers, their pasts treacherous, their futures uncertain. Elle grows curious about her own family’s stories. Do past voices reverberate in the air? Can they help her find her way forward? Across the centuries—in Maine, Ohio, and Tucson—families’ lives intertwine in scenes of relocation, transportation, and change.About the AuthorCynthia Lang graduated from Smith College, won a Vogue Prix de Paris, and worked as a staff writer on Glamour. After free-lancing (Glamour, Parents, Mademoiselle, Vogue Children, and New York Times Magazine), she wrote publications for Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC) and taught at the College of Communications, Boston University. She is co-author with Jerome Kagan of Psychology and Education: An Introduction (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) and with Harry Levinson, Executive (Harvard University Press). She lives in Tucson, Arizona.