@booklet {11220, title = {Future Girl}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {373 pp.}, publisher = {Allen \& Unwin Australia}, address = {Crows Nest, NSW, Australia}, abstract = {

The setting for the novel is a future Australia is dominated by a corporation that has developed an artificial food and has made the growing and consumption of \“wild\” food illegal. The point-of-view character is a sixteen-year-old girl who is deaf and whose hearing mother, concerned that she be able to fully integrate into hearing society, sends her to a regular school, go through speech therapy, and fails to realize that even with hearing aids and lipreading she struggles to understand most of what people say or, because she cannot sign or fingerspell, communicate with other deaf people. Her one love is art, and the novel is heavily illustrated in color on every page. The novel has two intertwined threads as the girl comes into her own as she learns Auslan (Australian sign language) and finger spelling, begins to become integrated into the Deaf community, and becomes an advocate for natural food.

}, keywords = {Australian author, Deaf author, Female author}, isbn = {9781760294373}, author = {Asphyxia [pseud.]} }