# In This Sign

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- Book: [In This Sign](https://www.bookquiver.com/joanne-greenberg/in-this-sign) ([In This Sign.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/joanne-greenberg/in-this-sign.md))
- Authors: [Joanne Greenberg](https://www.bookquiver.com/joanne-greenberg)
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4167-909-8
- Pages: 304
- Published: 2024-09-12
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Two young deaf people, Abel and Janice, leave their punitive school and begin their life as a married couple ‘Outside’ – in the unwelcoming world of the hearing. A misunderstanding about the payment plan on a car kickstarts years of debt, hard labour and ostracization; but they find solace and expression in the richness of Sign, in their hard-won independence and in the birth of their daughter Margaret. First published in 1970, only a decade after ASL’s formal recognition as a language, In This Sign is a rare, compassionate portrait of the deaf community and a moving family saga that spans the twentieth century. With an introduction by Sara Novic and a new afterword by the author.