Черная метель

Nadei͡asʹ nachatʹ zhiznʹ zanovo, otet͡s Tei perevozit semʹi͡u v Beskrovnui͡u dolinu na i͡uge Kolorado. No reki peresykhai͡ut, posevy gibnut i vozvrashchai͡utsi͡a chernye meteli. Tee kazhetsi͡a, chto ee zhiznʹ ostanovilasʹ: eĭ zapreshcheno khoditʹ v shkolu, bratʹ knigi v biblioteke, perepisyvatʹsi͡a so starymi druzʹi͡ami. No semʹe nuzhny denʹgi, poėtomu Tei͡a rabotaet v gorodskom kafe. Tam ona znakomitsi͡a s glukhim Rėem. Roditeli Tei, kotorai͡a rodilasʹ slaboslyshashcheĭ, vsegda zastavli͡ali ee pritvori͡atʹsi͡a chelovekom s normalʹnym slukhom. No teperʹ, kogda Rėĭ taĭno uchit ee i͡azyku zhestov, ona ponimaet, chego eĭ tak ne khvatalo - ne tolʹko novogo i͡azyka, no i t͡selogo soobshchestva i, vozmozhno, dazhe shansa na li͡ubovʹ. "Chernai͡a metelʹ" - ėto trevozhnyĭ i vmeste s tem ochenʹ khrupkiĭ roman vzroslenii͡a, v kotorom slaboslyshashchai͡a devushka-podrostok podvergaet somnenii͡u vse, chto ona znaet o semʹe, li͡ubvi i svoem budushchem. "V romane Ėlison Staĭn iskusno spletai͡utsi͡a niti istorii i vzroslenii͡a Tei i oshchushchaetsi͡a strakh, slovno ot nadvigai͡ushcheĭsi͡a buri. Ochenʹ zakhvatyvai͡ushche i ėmot͡sionalʹno". Kirkus.

Hoping to start life anew, Thea's father moves the family to a bloodless valley in southern Colorado. But rivers are drying up, crops are dying, and black snowstorms are returning. It seems to Thea that her life has stopped: she is forbidden to go to school, borrow books from the library, and correspond with old friends. But the family needs money, so Thea works in a city cafe. There she meets the deaf Ray. Thea's parents, who was born hard of hearing, always forced her to pretend to be a person with normal hearing. But now that Ray is secretly teaching her sign language, she realizes what she's been missing—not only a new language, but also an entire community and maybe even a chance at love. "Black Blizzard" is an unsettling and at the same time very fragile coming—of-age novel in which a hearing-impaired teenage girl questions everything she knows about family, love, and her future. "Alison Stein's novel artfully intertwines the threads of Thea's story and growing up, and one feels fear, as if from an impending storm. It's very exciting and emotional." Kirkus.