The House With All The Lights OnIf I were to tell you our story in sign languagethe story of my grandparents and meId begin with a single finger touching my chest. 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 worldone where sign language was banned for much of the twentieth centuryand weaves in her own experience as a hearing child in a family that often