The House With All The Lights On av Jessica Kirkness

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<p><i>The House With All The Lights On</i> is a lyrical exploration of family, identity and history, and what it is to be a member of a family where the most beautiful of bonds are born in difference.<br><br><i>''If I were to tell you our story in sign language-the story of my grandparents and me-I''d begin with a single finger touching my chest.''</i><br><br>Jessica Kirkness has traversed the boundary between deaf and hearing cultures all her life. Her memoir tells the story of her grandparents who grew up deaf in a hearing world-one where sign language was banned for much of the twentieth century-and weaves in her own experience as a hearing child in a family that often struggled to navigate their elders'' difference.<br><br>This journey takes her from the family home to the workplaces of research audiologists, and back to England where she visits her grandparents'' old schools and other family landmarks-discovering along the way how terribly their deafness has been misunderstood.<br