If a Tree Falls: A Family's Quest to Hear and Be Heard

by Jennifer Rosner and Jennifer Rosner

Book Overview

A revealing memoir of a family and a "wrenching journey into deafness from the standpoint of a mother, a wife, a daughter, a philosopher, and a Jew" (Ilan Stavans, author of On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language).

When her daughters were born deaf, Jennifer Rosner was stunned. Then she discovered a hidden history of deafness in her family, going back generations to the Jewish enclaves of Eastern Europe. Traveling back...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558616624
• ISBN13: 9781558616622
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Feminist Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"