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Rated: 21 times. Average rating 4.38
Description
A heartwarming memoir describes growing up as the hearing son of two deaf parents during the Depression, the challenges of straddling the world of the deaf and the hearing world beyond the family's silent apartment, and his occasional resentment of the heavy burdens of his role as an interpreter despite his love for his family. 50,000 first printing.
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