September Book Club - Thursday, Sept. 19th

This month we will be discussing Give Me a Sign by Anna Sortino, a young-adult novel chosen for Deaf Awareness Month.  Lilah is stuck in the middle.  At least, that’s what having a hearing loss feels like sometimes—when you don’t feel “deaf enough” to identify as Deaf, or hearing enough to meet the world’s expectations. 

Give Me a Sign is a sweet YA contemporary romance novel set at a camp for deaf and blind kids. Lilah wears hearing aids and feels caught between deaf and hearing, but this summer, Lilah is ready for a change. She gets a job for the summer where she finds community, brushes up on her ASL skills, and falls for a cute Deaf counselor. It’s up to Lilah to find where she belongs, especially when the comfort of camp is no match for struggles in the real world.

Anna Sortino is the author of Give Me a Sign, On the Bright Side, and other stories about disabled characters living their lives and falling in love. She’s Deaf and passionate about diverse representation in media. Born and raised in the Chicagoland area, Anna has since lived in different cities from coast to coast, spending her free time exploring nature with her dog or reading on the couch with her cat.