In This Sign The Highly Acclaimed Novel of a Family Whose Love and Courage Enable Them to Survive in the Silent World of the Deaf

<p><b>From the award-winning author of <i>I Never Promised You a Rose Garden</i>, Joanne Greenberg presents a poignant novel of family whose love and courage enable them to survive in the silent world of the deaf.</b><br><br>Abel and Janice Ryder began their married life together with all the hopes and dreams of a young couple deeply in love. But before long they realize that their deafness stands as an immense barrier between them and a society that seems to work only for those who can hear. <br><br>Inexperienced, ignorant, and bewildered, Abel and Janice leave the harsh environment of a school for the disabled and enter the insensitive world of the hearing. Through years of debt and misunderstanding, hard and degrading work, the raising of a hearing daughter, common tragedies and joys, they learn that the remarkable tool of sign language enables them to survive and, indeed, to forge a love too powerful to be broken by the painful, extraordinary world into which they were born. <br><br>Spanning four generations, <i>In This Sign</i> is the story of one family’s struggle to carve a place for itself out of the tides of wealth, war, and human strivings in America.</p>