When a girl born to a mountaintop village of deaf people suddenly starts to hear, she sets in motion a series of events to help her people survive their hard life on the top of an inaccessible mountain. It's an interesting premise and the characters are charming, but Mead spends so much time telling you what is happening, or over-explaining, or re-phrasing Fei's thoughts multiple times, it gets exhausting. The world building was non existent for the greater part of the book; explanations do come in, but they are too little, too late. I liked that it was based on a Chinese myth; it made me want to read more stories like that.