"Haunting and provocative .
So now Lena, the last transcriptionist, sits alone in a room--a human conduit, silently turning reporters\' recorded stories into print--until the day she encounters a story so shocking that it shatt.
Rowland\'s writing is compelling and masterful." --Delia Ephron, author of The Lion Is In Once, there were many transcriptionists at the Record, a behemoth New York City newspaper, but new technology has put most of them out of work. . . "Haunting and provocative