Train Go Sorry By Leah Cohen Summary

I read the book Train Go Sorry, by Leah Cohen. I had no clue that the format of the book would jump around from different people’s point of view. It was very strange for me at first, I had started to believe the book was full of one-shot stories revolving the topic of deafness and Deaf culture, that is, until I started to realize the connection between all the characters. It was a interesting read to my surprise. I had thought it would be sad and or follow more of a straight forward interview kind of set up, but I was happy to find it really flowed so well as a story. If it hadn’t been for the pictures in the beginning of the books, I would have started to believe all the people involved were fictional, but dealing with real world issues.

I major in Linguistics and I have always been fascinated with language. I also realized how beautiful language is, especially ASL, but also the limits that comes with being a second language learner. You will always be looked at as a second language learner and there will be times when many concepts don’t come as naturally as they would to a native speaker/signer. I also couldn’t help but appreciate that all of the people that the author chose to include in her book were dramatically different and really showed different sides of the Deaf community. I loved that the author wanted to be deaf, and talked about it as hearing people would think deaf people would wish and dream about. I loved that Sofia’s struggle between not being really deaf in her little sister’s eyes, and maybe the eyes of the Deaf community as well because of her high level of oral skills, but yet, not being good enough to be a hearing person. I loved that James was from the Bronx just like me, and knew the same struggles as well. I enjoyed seeing how deafness affected him, and how it shaped the choices he made throughout the