Austin has it all until it initially appears his sister is born hearing. What type of impact did this have on Austin and his relationship with his family?

Children born deaf may be raised to communicate in the language spoken by their parents or caretakers, but spreading over those nationalistic borders is a sub-culture which, pardon the pun, speaks to deaf people no matter what language they are taught from. One of the themes which the author aggressively ensures is understood by readers is those living broad spectrum of the hearing-impaired all form part of a deaf culture which has it own lexicon. The very title of the book is ASL jargon which roughly translates into something along the lines of “I’m being serious here.”