<b><i>The House With All The Lights On</i> is a lyrical exploration of family, identity and history, and what it is to be a member of a family where the most beautiful of bonds are born in difference</b><br/><br/><i>'If I were to tell you our story in sign language-the story of my grandparents and me-I'd begin with a single finger touching my chest.'</i><br/><br/>Jessica Kirkness has traversed the boundary between deaf and hearing cultures all her life. Her memoir tells the story of her grandparents who grew up deaf in a hearing world-one where sign language was banned for much of the twentieth century-and weaves in her own experience as a hearing child in a family that often struggled to navigate their elders' difference.<br/><br/>This journey takes her from the family home to the workplaces of research audiologists, and back to England where she visits her grandparents' old schools and other family landmarks-discovering along the way how terribly their deafness has been misunderstood.<br/><br/><i>The House With All The Lights On</i> captures the universal experienceof navigating complex family relationships and beautifully explores the nuances of identity in what is both a memoir and a love letter to those closest to her heart.<br/><br/>'An elegant and empathic love letter to family.' <b>Fiona Murphy, author of <i>The Shape of Sound</i></b><br/><br/>'A sensory window into Deaf gain and other complexities of our community.' <b>Asphyxia, author of <i>Future Girl</i></b><br/><br/>'Kirkness tells a moving, artful story about how we seek to understand our grandparents, and how they become the frame through which we see the world.' <b>Andrew Pippos, author of <i>Lucky's</i></b>