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

by Myron Uhlberg
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leave me alone, I'm reading
leave me alone, I'm reading rated it 12 years ago
Good book, for all the obvious reasons.We are different people than our parents. Due to the basic fact that we, by definition, are of a different generation than our parents, we can never fully and completely get each other. Times change - that's a fact, however slowly - and the changes in political...
megancsparks
megancsparks rated it 14 years ago
You know I like a book when I start writing down quotes from it. I'm not a quote person; I don't remember dialogue. I prefer ideas and concepts to the words people choose to express them in. But I gotta say, this book is written beautifully:"Does sound have rhythm? Does it rise and fall like the oce...
Osho
Osho rated it 16 years ago
A sweet but not treacly memoir by a hearing son of deaf parents. Uhlberg nicely balances characterizations of his parents' speech (particularly his father's) as beautiful, visual, and expressive against the limitations imposed on them by a hearing world that sees them as unintelligent. He also artic...
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