Deafening

The internationally bestselling, "gorgeously moving, old-fashioned novel" about a woman's life, loves, and self-discovery on the eve the Great War (O, The Oprah Magazine).

Grania O'Neill, the daughter of hardworking Irish hoteliers in small-town Ontario, is five years old when she emerges from a bout of scarlet fever profoundly deaf—suddenly sealed off from the world that was just beginning to open for her. While her guilt-plagued mother cannot accept it, Grania finds allies in her gran...