A review by clare_tan_wenhui
Ismael and His Sisters by Louise Stern

3.0

Maybe it is myself, but the heavy use of descriptive prose was a tad overwhelming for me. Well, it is unavoidable since all 3 protagnists in the book are all deaf. Even then the lack of conversation in the narrative wears you down when reading, thankfully before you lose patience with the book altogether. Meanwhile I'm not too sure whether I interpreted the symbolic meaning behind "sign language" and "scorpion", the 2 main themes in the book, correctly...