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A Loss for Words: The Story of Deafness in a Family | 
 enlarge | Author: Lou Ann Walker
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 153427
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.3 x 1
ISBN: 0060914254
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.420973
EAN: 9780060914257
ASIN: 0060914254
Publication Date: September 23, 1987
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Condition: Some wear on a very usable copy - marks
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 Book Club Loved it! July 24, 2007
We chose this book for our book club and EVERYONE LOVED IT! What great insights into the deaf culture.
honest and open June 12, 2006
Honest, open, and very well written. Authors parents and my parents are long time friends. Although I do not know the author, we probably met as kids. The deaf community is a very close knit group. Deaf parents are very caring and loving. It's a one day, cover to cover read.
 Boring March 31, 2006
0 out of 8 found this review helpful
I was supposed to read this book for my Sign Language class, but I started the first chapter, and was incredibly bored. This book is slow, and boring.
 Candid, Easy Reading February 2, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I went to high school with Lou Ann. We were not good friends, but I knew her parents were deaf. At that time, I felt that Lou Ann was diligent with her studies and way too mature for us to be friends. I read this book many years ago. I loved the book and knew some of the people she mentioned. I am in a book club now and I am going to recommend this story. I think it is a good read for anyone. Lou Ann was a kind person and I'm sure she has helped many people in the deaf community. Even today, I think there is a great variance in how different members of the deaf community interact with the hearing population.
Honest insight into our world January 2, 2006
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
As the oldest child in a family with deaf parents, I can totally relate to what the author went through. I was disturbed by a few of the reviews I read though. People are so quick to judge when they don't have a clue about the world that hearing children of deaf parents live in. I went through all the same experiences that the author did as well as many more. As the oldest child I too was responsible for all the interpreting and basically felt as though I was "raising" my parents instead of the other way around. It is not a fun way to grow up. I found myself annoyed by the reviewer who said they found deaf people to be "fun" and that the author was too dour and negative about the deaf culture. Don't be so quick to judge until you walk in our shoes. The deaf community I was exposed to was not a "fun" one. They were, as a whole, a very distrusting, backstabbing, and gossipy group. I am NOT saying all deaf people are this way! I can only relate what MY personal experiences were. The reviewers who said that it seemed to be the author's own "personality quirks" that made her experience life with deaf parents the way she did don't have a clue either. We are basically products of our upbringing and the life we live as a child. Yes, we can choose as adults to move forward and overcome much of the damage that may have been done, BUT you cannot change who you are nor can you erase the person you are completely. And much of that is formed in childhood, a childhood that is VERY different from mainstream society if you grow up as a hearing child with deaf parents. I suffer from anxiety I believe it is because of the overpowering sense of responsibility I was burdened with as a child, which I cannot seem to shake as an adult and mother of 4. Anyone studying ASL or truly trying to gain insight into the deaf world would definitely benefit from reading this novel.
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