It is, however, a story of a young person finding their true self and breaking from the ties that bind to the only life she's known. This is no coming-of-age tale, as Ruby has long been wise beyond her years. Ruby also loves to sing and listen to music, activities she can't share with her family. Her older brother is deaf too, meaning Ruby's life has been spent as an interpreter for her family, while also working on the family fishing boat in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where they are treated as outcasts and viewed as oddities by others. She is also a CODA - Child of Deaf Adults.
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