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

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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.
Copyright:
2010

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
250 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781558616912
Related ISBNs:
9781558616622
Publisher:
The Feminist Press at CUNY
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Jennifer Rosner
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Disability-Related, Biographies and Memoirs, Health, Mind and Body, Parenting and Family
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Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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