Opening tomorrow at 10am  ·  View all hours

139 South Oak Park Ave

Opening tomorrow at 10am

Home → Shop Books → Preorder Books → Shop Accessories → Buy Gift Cards → Directions & Parking → Contact the Store →

Close

This item is available for reserved order. While it is temporarily out of stock, you can still place your order now. We need a few extra days to get it ready for pick up or shipment.

Show Me a Sign

Ann Clare LeZotte

$8.99

Mary Lambert has always felt safe and protected on her beloved island of Martha’s Vineyard. Her great-great-grandfather was an early English settler and the first deaf islander. Now, over a hundred years later, many people there – including Mary – are deaf, and nearly everyone can communicate in sign language. Mary has never felt isolated. She is proud of her lineage.

But recent events have delivered winds of change. Mary’s brother died, leaving her family shattered. Tensions over land disputes are mounting between English settlers and the Wampanoag people. And a cunning young scientist has arrived, hoping to discover the origin of the island’s prevalent deafness. His maniacal drive to find answers soon renders Mary a “live specimen” in a cruel experiment. Her struggle to save herself is at the core of this penetrating and poignant novel that probes our perceptions of ability and disability.

Fiction · Disability · Historical Fiction