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Hands of My Father

Hardcover • 2009 • English

Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love

By Myron Uhlberg

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About the book

By turns heart-tugging and hilarious, Myron Uhlberg’s memoir tells the story of growing up as the hearing son of deaf parents—and his life in a world that he found unaccountably beautiful, even as he longed to escape it. “Does sound have rhythm?” my father asked. “Does it rise and fall like the ocean? Does it come and go like the wind?” Such were the kinds of questions that Myron Uhlberg’s deaf father asked him from earliest childhood, in his eternal quest to decipher, and to understand, the e...Show more

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ISBN

9780553806885

Publisher

Bantam

Published year

2009

Language

English

Original title

Hands of My Father

Format

Hardcover

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