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Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf World

by Leah Hager Cohen · 1994 · 320 pages

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This portrait of New York's Lafayette School for the Deaf is not just a work of journalism. It is also a memoir, since Leah Hager Cohen grew up on the school's campus and her father is its superintendent. As a hearing person raised among the deaf, Cohen appreciates both the intimate textures of that silent world and the gulf that separates it from our own.

Subject
biographyhistoryeducationsociology
Themes
disabilitysocial issueswork
Setting
1990snew yorknew york state
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 320 pages

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