The Sign for Home by Blair Fell

 Cyril Brewster and Arlo Dilly meet when Cyril is hired as one of Arlo's sign language interpreters for a writing class that Arlo is taking at the local community college in Poughkeepsie. Arlo is deaf and legally blind, so Cyril is interpreting in Tactile ASL, in which he does not have much experience. Arlo lives with his uncle, Brother Birch, who expects him to follow the strict commands of their Jehovah’s Witnesses religion. In addition, as Arlo’s guardian, Brother Birch does not allow Arlo much independence and makes most of the decisions about Arlo's life. When Cyril and his best friend, Hanne, discover that Arlo longs to meet with his friends from the deaf school he attended and also find out what really happened to the love of his life, they are compelled to break the rules. The Sign for Home is a heartfelt, sometimes humorous, look inside the DeafBlind community.