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A review by laura_cs
Show Me a Sign by Ann Clare LeZotte
5.0
I devoured this book in one sitting...
This is an amazing Own Voices story of life as a d/Deaf individual, but especially one in a time before schools for the deaf were common. It is also amazingly well-researched, not only in the history of Martha's Vineyard and post-Revolution America, but of the Wampanoag Tribe of the island. Just... amazing overall. Heartbreaking, at times, but also so powerful and truly an important read because, sadly, even in modern times the hearing view deafness as a defect, as something that needs to be cured, and don't respect sign language as a language or Deaf culture as a culture.
This is an amazing Own Voices story of life as a d/Deaf individual, but especially one in a time before schools for the deaf were common. It is also amazingly well-researched, not only in the history of Martha's Vineyard and post-Revolution America, but of the Wampanoag Tribe of the island. Just... amazing overall. Heartbreaking, at times, but also so powerful and truly an important read because, sadly, even in modern times the hearing view deafness as a defect, as something that needs to be cured, and don't respect sign language as a language or Deaf culture as a culture.