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A With candor and humor, Uhlberg recounts a childhood spent largely as a bridge between his parents and the hearing world. Translating from sign language to spoken language and back again, he enables his father to communicate with local shopkeepers, awakens his parents when his baby brother cries, and even interprets at a less-than-glowing parent-teacher conference. At times, he's embarrassed by his parents, and hurt that his father is called "dummy." But in the end, his overwhelming love and compassion leaves a lasting effect.
Title:
Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love
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Myron Uhlberg
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Mean Little Deaf Queer by Terry Galloway (Goodreads Author)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
In 1959, the year Terry Galloway turned nine, the voices of everyone she loved began to disappear. No one yet knew that an experimental antibiotic given to her mother had wreaked havoc on her fetal nervous system, eventually causing her to go deaf. As a self-proclaimed "child freak," she acted out her fury with her boxy hearing aids and Coke-bottle glasses by faking her own drowning at a camp for crippled children. Ever since that first real-life performance, Galloway has used theater, whether onstage or off, to defy and transcend her reality. With disarming candor, she writes about her mental breakdowns, her queer identity, and living in a silent, quirky world populated by unforgettable characters. What could have been a bitter litany of complaint is instead an unexpectedly hilarious and affecting take on life.
Deaf Sentence
Deaf Sentence
FIFTEEN LANES by S.J LAIDLAW was a phenomenal read and was written as fiction but the writer was an American who lived & worked in India helping girls try to escape forced prostitution after being sold into it.Read my review of it here:
bit.ly/fifteenlanes
bit.ly/fifteenlanes
Jack RosewoodJack Rosewood has written several true crime books and anthologies.
Another True Crime author is Ann Rule
Ann Rule
