![]() ![]() NewsdayThe new novel from the award winning author of Deafening is a poignant exploration of one eighty year old life, as its hero*ine lies at the bottom of a ravine where she has crashed en route to visit the queen. During the war, Jim and Grania’s letters both real and imagined attempt to sustain their intimacy, even while they are both pulled into cataclysmic events that will alter the world forever. But two weeks after their wedding, Jim must leave to serve as a stretcher bearer on the blood soaked battlefields of Flanders. ![]() In wonderment the two begin to create a new emotional vocabulary that encompas*ses both sound and silence. After graduation Grania stays on to work at the school, and it is there that she meets Jim Lloyd, a hearing man. But when it becomes clear that Grania can no longer thrive in the world of the hearing, her family sends her to live at the Ontario School for the Deaf where she learns sign language and speech. Her mother cannot accept her daughter’s deafness, so Grania’s indefatigable grandmother tries to teach her language from the inside out. At the age of five, Grania the daughter of hardworking hoteliers in small town Ontario emerges from a bout of scarlet fever profoundly deaf, and is suddenly sealed off from the world that was just beginning to open for her. Deafening is a tale of remarkable virtuosity and power. ![]()
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