Title: Jena
Product review: One big detail that I could not get past in order to enjoy this book: how does someone who has been deaf for almost all her life learn to read lips? How would she know what words meant? The author even states that Emily has "no conscious memory of sound," since she went deaf when she was three years old. A hearing three- or four-year-old can learn words, slang, contractions, nicknames, euphemisms, and abstract ideas as she grows. But someone who can't hear muffled sounds, inflectios, sarcasm, etc., would find it impossible to know what random mouth movements mean. I couldn't get past that to believe that Emily was able to read lips flawlessly (as another reviewer noted) in almost every situation.
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