If a Tree Falls: A Family's Quest to Hear and Be Heard - Couverture souple

Rosner, Jennifer

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1558616624 ISBN 13 : 9781558616622

Editeur : Feminist Press at The City University of New York, 2010

Synopsis

A revealing memoir of a family and a "wrenching journey into deafness from the standpoint of a mother, a wife, a daughter, a philosopher, and a Jew" (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 "gentle meditation on sound and silence, love and family," 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, Rosner's imaginative odyssey of dealing with her daughters' deafness is at its heart a story of whether she-a mother with perfect hearing--can ever truly hear her children.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jennifer Rosner is the author of the memoir If A Tree Falls: A Family's Quest to Hear and Be Heard and the novel The Yellow Bird Sings. Her children's book, The Mitten String, is a Sydney Taylor Book Award Notable. Jennifer's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Massachusetts Review, The Forward, Good Housekeeping, and elsewhere. She lives in western Massachusetts with her family.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Feminist Press at The City University of New York
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1558616624
• ISBN 13: 9781558616622
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 247
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• Personne responsable: non disponible