{"product_id":"in-this-sign-9780143138099","title":"In This Sign","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe bestselling modern classic by the author of \u003ci\u003eI Never Promised You a Rose Garden\u003c\/i\u003e about a deaf couple, their hearing child, and the bond they create through sign language, featuring a new introduction by Sara Novic, author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller \u003ci\u003eTrue Biz\u003c\/i\u003e, and a new afterword by the author \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Astute and wholly authentic . . . This novel isn't only one of deaf hardship, but also one of bravery and great joy. . . . Over the course of it, I was often as gripped . . . as I am while reading a thriller.\" --Sara Novic, from the Introduction \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Penguin Classic \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAbel and Janice meet at a school for the deaf. Sign language brings them together, enabling them to survive and, indeed, to forge a love too powerful to be broken by the world into which they were born. Spanning forty years, from the late 1920s to the early 1960s, \u003ci\u003eIn This Sign\u003c\/i\u003e follows the lives of Abel, Janice, and their hearing daughter, Margaret, as they contend uneasily with the \"Outside\"--a world designed, often purposely, to be inhospitable to those like them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst published in 1970, only a decade after ASL's formal recognition as a language and well before the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, \u003ci\u003eIn This Sign\u003c\/i\u003e stands out as a rare, compassionate portrait of the deaf community.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/03\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143138099\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.47lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.75h x 5.06w x 0.47d","brand":"Joanne Greenberg","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44413605085365,"sku":"9780143138099","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_111a86b2-58bd-495f-9775-563a544893c6.jpg?v=1720537907","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/in-this-sign-9780143138099","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}