Train Go Sorry : Inside a Deaf World (1994 original; edició 1996)

I really like Cohen's writing style, even though the narrative was totally disjointed. I don't know that she went "inside a deaf world" so much as provided vignettes of a particular deaf place. They were beautiful vignettes though; I was also very interested in her musings on being a hearing person in Deaf places. Her father had gained respect and acceptance despite being hearing by being a native signer with Deaf parents, while she was both hearing and a non-native signer which put her even further outside the community. Her grappling with even the idea of being an interpreter - that interpreters of every other language except ASL will only translate into their native language because one can only truly grasp all the nuance of meanings of a language if you learned it from birth - really got me thinking about the idea of hearing interpreters who aren't native signers, most of them, acting as an imperfect link between hearing and Deaf worlds. Very interesting. ( )

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Interesting view of the deaf world from a hearing daughter. Much like Hands of My Father by Myron Uhlberg. Mama will like this one. ( )

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Oh man! I finished this book and forgot to journal on it. That's really frustrating, especially since only one of the things I wanted to say made it into notes. (The only one that did was "Saw there was a story on NPR this morning about Cochlear Implants Redefine What It Means To Be Deaf. http://www.npr.org/2012/04/08/1502458)

Being the daughter of a severely hearing impaired woman, and a woman who has hearing issues herself, I was very interested in reading this book. the historical bits were what grabbed me the most -- the founding of the LExingtion School for the deaf and it's early days. I also was moved by some of the stories, challenges, and sheer determination of the students written about in this book, but the history buff in me won out, and that's what I remember most.

I've spent 40 minutes on internet searching for the link to a marvelous show we saw last year, which featured the story of a deaf Jewish girl in Germany at the onset of WWII. If you have time, check out this link: ( )