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Hands of my father

a hearing boy, his deaf parents, and the language of love

by Myron Uhlberg

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By turns heart-tugging and hilarious, Myron Uhlberg's memoir tells the story of growing up as the hearing son of deaf parents--and his life in a world that he found unaccountably beautiful, even as he longed to escape it.

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