The Sign for Home by Blair Fell

Releasing April 5th ~ Get it on Amazon

https://amzn.to/3qYKBUy

You can read the blurb or check out more reviews on Goodreads, but I’m going to tell you how this book made me feel. Nervous with a heightened sense of curiosity. Introspective is another. I have never really spent time thinking just how much the deaf-blind community is reliant on others. Having to have complete faith in those around you, to be honest, open, professional as well as moral. There is so much happening and so much information given by the author, Blair Fell. You can tell Fell devoted time to be acute, perceptive, understanding, and shining a light on this portion of the population. I leave this read feeling inspired to learn more and to reevaluate how I would interact with a person within that community. Love has many forms and everyone is entitled to feel that love and be loved in return.

The Sign for Home has found a home within my heart. What a wonderful thing to happen. Especially from a debut author. Well done, Blair Fell!

~Tanja

*Thank you to Atria Books via Netgalley for sharing this title with me.



From the Cover...

When Arlo Dilly learns the girl he thought was lost forever might still be out there, he takes it as a sign and embarks on a life-changing journey to find his great love—and his freedom.

Arlo Dilly is young, handsome and eager to meet the right girl. He also happens to be DeafBlind, a Jehovah’s Witness, and under the strict guardianship of his controlling uncle. His chances of finding someone to love seem slim to none.

And yet, it happened once before: many years ago, at a boarding school for the Deaf, Arlo met the love of his life—a mysterious girl with onyx eyes and beautifully expressive hands which told him the most amazing stories. But tragedy struck, and their love was lost forever.

Or so Arlo thought.

After years trying to heal his broken heart, Arlo is assigned a college writing assignment which unlocks buried memories of his past. Soon he wonders if the hearing people he was supposed to trust have been lying to him all along, and if his lost love might be found again.

No longer willing to accept what others tell him, Arlo convinces a small band of misfit friends to set off on a journey to learn the truth. After all, who better to bring on this quest than his gay interpreter and wildly inappropriate Belgian best friend? Despite the many forces working against him, Arlo will stop at nothing to find the girl who got away and experience all of life’s joyful possibilities.

[ID: I am wearing a black sweater while holding the book, The Sign for Home by Blair Fell, on a stack of books. The room is a soft white]