Sounds of Silence

Young Marco Lippa is a healthy twelve-year-old: carefree and prone to dreaming. The star pitcher for his baseball team, he hits the winning home-run against their cross-town rivals.But the revelry soon turns into something different, as Marco becomes sick. Rushed to the hospital and stuck with needles, poked and prodded, his world spins out of control. When he wakes up, he's deaf, and his dreams crumble.Sounds Of Silence tells the story of Marco Lippa's coming to terms with his deafness, his grief and anger, and his lost dreams. Forced to leave his comfortable home and adapt to life away from his family, he needs to relearn how to communicate and function without his hearing, while beset by the normal anxieties of a teenage boy: bullies, girls, and fitting in. Phillip Tomasso is a multi-genre author with over twenty-seven novels published since 2000.It was back in 1984 when Tomasso realized he wanted to write. Diagnosed with a reading disability in school, he did all he could not to read. In seventh grade his class was assigned to read The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. Hinton was just sixteen when she wrote that book. Tomasso always considered himself something of a storyteller. He decided he would attempt writing books that would inspire reluctant readers to read.When not writing books, Tomasso works the graveyard shift as a Fire / EMS Dispatcher for 911. Experiences in his professional positions have given him intimate perspective when fleshing out storylines. He is able to draw on knowledge obtained and utilize those around him and in the field to ensure his fiction is as factual as possible.