Book Review: The Silence Between Us

The Silence Between Us

by Alison Gervais

Blink

Teens & YA

Pub Date 13 Aug 2019

I am reviewing a copy of The Silence Between Us through Blink and Netgalley:

For five years Maya has attended a school for the Deaf, but now during her Senior year they haves moved and she must attend a hearing school because the deaf High School is over an hour away. Leaving behind Pratt School for the Deaf where she has been a student for years only to go and attend a hearing school which is worse. Maya has dreams of breaking into the medical field and is determined to get the grades and a college degree to match, she’s never thought of being Deaf a disability. But her teachers and classmates at Engelmann High don’t seem to share her optimism.

There’s Beau Watson Englemann’s Student body president, when he learns ASL, Maya can’t help wonder if he has a hidden agenda or if he truly wants to communicate with her. She does find it nice to be able to sign with someone when she has to lip read all the time, but Maya has always been told Deaf/Hearing relationships do not work!

There are clear differences in Beau and Maya’s world, and when Maya passes up on a chance to get a Cochlear Implant, Beau has trouble understanding why. It hurts Maya that Beau does not understand, she’s proud to be deaf, and doesn’t understand why Beau wants to change her.

I give The Silence Between Us five out of five stars!

Happy Reading!