In This Sign Audiobook

The bestselling modern classic by the author of I Never Promised You a Rose Garden about a deaf couple their hearing child and the bond they create through sign language featuringa new introduction by Sara Novi author of the New York Times bestseller True Biz and a new afterword by the author

A Penguin Classic

Abel and Janice meet at a school for the deaf Sign language brings them together enabling them to survive and indeed to forge a love too powerful to be broken by the world into which they were born Spanning forty years from the late 1920s to the early 1960s In This Sign follows the lives of Abel Janice and their hearing daughter Margaret as they contend uneasily with the Outsidea world designed often purposely to be inhospitable to those like them

First published in 1970only a decade after ASLs formal recognition as a language and well before the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act In This Sign stands out as a rare compassionate portrait of the deaf community

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