{"product_id":"9780805007220","title":"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","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eIn This Sign\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Joanne Greenberg\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eI Never Promised You a Rose Garden\u003c\/i\u003e, Joanne Greenberg presents a poignant novel of family whose love and courage enable them to survive in the silent world of the deaf.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbel 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInexperienced, 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpanning four generations, \u003ci\u003eIn This Sign\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“Joanne Greenberg has taken the world of the deaf and made it an extension of everyone's experience-and made it a metaphor for childish innocence, for grown-up alienation and loneliness . . . and for the inability of all of us to truly listen and speak.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780805007220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Holt Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40593737154766,"sku":"9780805007220","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780805007220","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}