Sounds Like Home
Book description
Originally published in 1999, Sounds Like Home adds an important dimension to the canon of deaf literature by presenting the perspective of an African American deaf woman who attended a segregated deaf school. Mary Herring Wright documents her life from the mid-1920s to the early 1940s, offering a rich account…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Sounds Like Home as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The author gives perfect details to locate me right into the setting: strawberries, honeysuckle, dust in the air. The book abounds with sentences that start with words like "When the nights were silvery with moonlight and dark shadows" (p. 36) -- they grabbed me by the heart and placed me in the south where I grew up. While the situation of turning deaf at 8 years old -- with no one to explain why and nothing to be done about it -- and all the challenges of growing up is unfamiliar to nearly all readers, the honesty of this book…
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