In This Sign, 9780241679098
Paperback
Deaf family fights for connection, love, and belonging in a hearing world.

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  • Paperback

    304 pages

  • Release Date

    6 January 2025

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Summary

The bestselling classic about three generations of a deaf family in modern America, by the author of I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.

Two young deaf people, Abel and Janice, leave their punitive school and begin their life as a married couple ‘Outside’ – in the unwelcoming world of the hearing. A misunderstanding about the payment plan on a car kickstarts years of debt, hard labour and ostracization; but they find solace and expression in the richness of Sign, in their har…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241679098
ISBN-10:0241679095
Author:Joanne Greenberg
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:304
Release Date:6 January 2025
Weight:228g
Dimensions:197mm x 129mm x 17mm
Series:Penguin Modern Classics
About The Author

Joanne Greenberg

Joanne Greenberg is the author of nineteen books, including I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. She received the Harry and Ethel Daroff Memorial Fiction Award as well as the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction in 1963 for her novel The King’s Persons. Her novel In This Sign was made into a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie called Love Is Never Silent. Greenberg was a volunteer firefighter and paramedic for thirteen years.

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