[NFB-Announce] a book to read for Meet the Blind (and deaf-blind) Month

[Donna Ring]

Please share.  I just finished reading on BARD a beautiful, sad, funny, exciting, character-driven book all adult members and friends  should read.  Here is the description on the NLS BARD web site:

The sign for home: a novel DB116605<https://nlsbard.loc.gov/bard2-web/search/DB116605/?prevPage=history&from=%2Freading-history%2F>
Author: Fell, Blair
Reading Time: 14 hours, 13 minutes
Production: National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress
Read by: Blair Fell
Subjects: Human Relations, Romance, Disability
"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." -- Provided by publisher. Strong language, some violence and some explicit descriptions of sex. Commercial audiobook.
[New York] : Simon & Schuster Audio, 2022.

This isn't just one of those preachy or inspirational gooey stories but true to life with diverse characters who struggle with conflicting emotions of love and hate, ideas about right and wrong, control and independence, some  who don't learn from their mistakes and some who grow and change.
The story is told from two points of view, the first person interpreter and second person the deaf-blind man.

Donna Ring