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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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But You Look So Normal: Lost and Found in a Hearing World

But You Look So Normal: Lost and Found in a Hearing World

Marseille, Claudia

Paperback

Biographies GeneralHearing & Speech

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 164742626X
ISBN13: 9781647426262
Publisher: She Writes Press
Published: May 14 2024
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.80
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
2024 IPPY Awards Gold Winner in Best First Book (Nonfiction/Personal)

By age four, Claudia Marseille had hardly uttered a word. When her parents finally had her hearing tested and learned she had a severe hearing loss, they chose to mainstream her, hoping this would offer her the most normal childhood possible. With the help of a primitive hearing aid, Claudia worked hard to learn to hear, lipread, and speak even as she tried to hide her disability in order to fit in. As a result, she was often misunderstood, lonely, and isolated--fitting into neither the hearing world nor the Deaf culture.

This memoir explores Claudia's relationships with her German refugee parents--a disturbed, psychoanalyst father obsessed over various harebrained projects and moneymaking schemes and a Jewish mother who had survived the Holocaust in Munich--and with her own identity. Claudia shares how she emerged from loneliness and social isolation, explored her Jewish identity, struggled to find a career compatible with hearing loss, and eventually opened herself to a life of creativity and love.

But You Look So Normal is the inspiring story of a life affected but not defined by an invisible disability. It is a journey through family, loss, shame, identity, love, and healing as Claudia finally, joyfully, finds her place in the world.

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