The Sign for Home
Book Feature - The Sign for Home by Blair Fell
HBL Note: This is a super special novel featuring a character who is deaf as well as a character who identifies as LGBTQ+. Author Blair Fell drew from his 25 years of experience as a certified American Sign Language interpreter for the deaf and as a Tactile sign language interpreter for the DeafBlind, to write dialogue rendered in both Standard English and an approximation of ASL structure. The story alternates between Arlo’s voice (with its distinctive Deaf syntax) and Cyril’s fast and funny point of view. I love to see this diversity. Scroll down to read more about THE SIGN FOR HOME by Blair Fell.
Book Feature - The Sign for Home by Blair Fell
Book Feature - The Sign for Home by Blair Fell
From the publisher:
Arlo Dilly is young, handsome and eager to meet the right girl. He also happens to be DeafBlind, a Jehovah’s Witness, and under the strict guardianship of his controlling uncle. His chances of finding someone to love seem slim to none.
And yet, it happened once before: many years ago, at a boarding school for the Deaf, Arlo met the love of his life—a mysterious girl with onyx eyes and beautifully expressive hands which told him the most amazing stories. But tragedy struck, and their love was lost forever.
Or so Arlo thought.
After years trying to heal his broken heart, Arlo is assigned a college writing assignment which unlocks buried memories of his past. Soon he wonders if the hearing people he was supposed to trust have been lying to him all along, and if his lost love might be found again.
No longer willing to accept what others tell him, Arlo convinces a small band of misfit friends to set off on a journey to learn the truth. After all, who better to bring on this quest than his gay interpreter and wildly inappropriate Belgian best friend? Despite the many forces working against him, Arlo will stop at nothing to find the girl who got away and experience all of life’s joyful possibilities.
Book Feature - The Sign for Home by Blair Fell
