David Schwinghammer’s Reviews > Deafening > Status Update

Jim tells Grania about Pecker Hill, where they send gonorrhea and sphilis cases, which aren't laughable diseases.

Jim is in combat. When one of his buddies is killed, he feels guilty about not being hit.

Jim sings and plays the piano, helping take his fellow troops' minds off the war. I'd forgotten he is now married to Grania, which makes being away from her risking his life even worse.

Jim arrives at Ypres, one of the worst battles of WWI.

Flashback to when Jim had been with Grania. Jim can hear.

Jim starts his duty; he's overcome by the blood and the wounded. He's a stretcher bearer.

Jim, Grania's husband now, is on a ship on his way to fight in WWI.

Grania talks to "Chim (Jim) about sounds. He will soon leave for the war, presumably WWI.

DEAFENING is set during the WWI time slot. Grania is the protagonist. She meets a possible love interest, Jim, at the school for the deaf where she eventually becomes a member of the staff.

At her school for the deaf, Grania realizes she has sisters and brothers, more than she could ever have imagined. Almost 300 of them, who were like herself.