"Rooter was at once the most difficult and the most helpful of the pequeninos."
Orson Scott Card the First Line of Speaker for the Dead
"The sunlight on her back, the breeze against her wings, the water cool under her feet, her eggs warming and maturing in the flesh of the cabra: Life, so long waited for, and not until today could she be sure that she would be, not the last of her tribe, but the first."
Orson Scott Card the Last Line of in Speaker for the Dead
Originally Published March 1, 1986
Paperback edition:
382 pages - Aug. 1, 1994