Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf World

This is a book about the human hunger for communication: the joy when it can fully take place, the frustration when it's thwarted. Many of its happiest moments happen when a group of Deaf people rearranges their physical space—putting chairs in a circle, clearing away visual barriers—so they can talk to each other, unimpeded, with the "thick rapport" that Cohen, a hearing person who was raised in their community, so admires and envies. Her book is a blend of memoir and reporting, always aware of questions of inside and outside that are so crucial in Deaf communities, but also willing to let those categories blur to reflect her own complicated identity. A classic of its form since it was published, it reads as fresh and relevant and human now as it must have thirty years ago.