Reading the Signs: A Schoolhouse Mystery
Hardcover
Series: Critical Pedagogies
ISBN13: 9781645041573
Publisher: Dio Press Inc
Published: Apr 20 2021
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The novel, READING THE SIGNS is a gripping mystery about betrayal and love, truth and lies, abuse and power, sound and silence. At the same time it is a meta-mystery about language in language, an enactment of what Virginia Woolf called the Danger and difficulty of words. How can we know and unknow something at the same time? When does the unsaid become as apparent as the said? Is it possible to hold knowledge off long enough for the words about it to change, or at least cool down? What are we to do when words push their way past our own determination not to speak them? Taking place in a small beach town on Long Island, New York, Sylvie Fried, an expert reading teacher, comes up against challenges in her personal life and in the work she does in Rose Elementary School and her customary confidence is suddenly not there, yet finding solutions may be a matter of life and death.
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