![]() ![]() In wonderment the two begin to create a new emotional vocabulary that encompas*ses both sound and silence. After graduation Grania stays on to work at the school, and it is there that she meets Jim Lloyd, a hearing man. But when it becomes clear that Grania can no longer thrive in the world of the hearing, her family sends her to live at the Ontario School for the Deaf where she learns sign language and speech. ![]() Her mother cannot accept her daughter’s deafness, so Grania’s indefatigable grandmother tries to teach her language from the inside out. At the age of five, Grania the daughter of hardworking hoteliers in small town Ontario emerges from a bout of scarlet fever profoundly deaf, and is suddenly sealed off from the world that was just beginning to open for her. Deafening is a tale of remarkable virtuosity and power. ![]()
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