Finished Su 2/6/21
This is one of my hardbacks that I bought at West Branch on Fr 11/14/08 and I finished the book that December. This was my first exposure to Boyle and I said that I would read more by this author.
I read Boyle's 'DROP CITY' in December of this year.
'TALK TALK' is about a young deaf woman who is a victim of a credit card fraud and identity theft. Dana is a teacher at a school for the deaf in California and her boyfriend, Bridger works in the graphic design and movie special effects field. The criminal, 'Peck' lives in splendor with his Russian girlfriend and her four year old daughter in Marin County.
This book is set just slightly before the Internet became all pervasive and the way the crooks get your information is by robbing your mailbox. Then they can get the necessary information by reading your Visa bill or a utility bill. Actually all they need is your name and address and then they can request a change of address. Hopefully they can get the information before the legitimate owner notices that he is not receiving mail.
Dana and her boyfriend, Bridger travel across the country to upstate New York to try to catch the thief, William 'Peck' Wilson.
***Many within the deaf community do not see themselves as handicapped. They see deafness as only a 'difference' and not a disability at all.
***I had a problem with the end of the novel. Dana and Bridger might not be together at the end. It's not clear and I was a bit confused.
From a review in The New York Times:
"No one writes better about the wages of American sin. Or, if not wages exactly, sin purchased on credit, and that probably stolen."
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