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A revealing memoir of a family and a âwrenching journey into deafness from the standpoint of a mother, a wife, a daughter, a philosopher, and a Jewâ (Ilan Stavans, author of On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language).  When her daughters were born deaf, Jennifer Rosner was stunned. Then she discovered a hidden history of deafness in her family, going back generations to the Jewish enclaves of Eastern Europe. Traveling back in time in her mind, she imagined her silent relatives, who showed surprising creativity in dealing with a world that preferred to ignore them.  Here, in a âgentle meditation on sound and silence, love and familyâ Rosner shares her journey into the modern world of deafness, and the controversial decisions she and her husband made about hearing aids, cochlear implants and sign language (Publishers Weekly).  Punctuated by memories of being unheard, Rosnerâs imaginative odyssey of dealing with her daughtersâ deafness is at its heart a story of whether sheâa mother with perfect hearingâcan ever truly hear her children. |
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