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Silence Is Multi-Colored In My World
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Red Haircrow (Goodreads Author)
A winner in Rainbow Award 2012 Best LGBT Biography/Memoir category: "Silence is Multi-colored in My World" is a collection of memories and observations written from the perspective of a young man who was orphaned early, who was gay, deaf and Russian.
As a pre-pubescent he was forced to sell himself on streets to survive before being bought at age 14, making his journey wes...more
As a pre-pubescent he was forced to sell himself on streets to survive before being bought at age 14, making his journey wes...more
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May 10th 2012
by Flying With Red Haircrow
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After acute grief had passed, though it still can strike, it took me some time, months and into years to finally decide to collect his writings together to share with the world. He was so courageous and beautiful, strong and vulnerable at the same time. He was the kind of person you might never remark on if you see them walk pass you on the street, yet there was so many amazing things inside him, and a blazing intellectual that so many dismissed or never realized.
He lived most of his life in or...more
He lived most of his life in or...more
I’ve only recently discovered how deeply I enjoy memoirs. There is something quite indescribable about having the opportunity to walk alongside someone’s words, on a part of their life journey, as they share what they are willing to, generously and openheartedly.
Silence Is Multi-Colored In My World touched some deep fibers in my soul. G.Y.S. led a complex and passionate life, a unique, painful, loving and intense life breathed into this book and colored in ideas and words that I found myself un...more
Silence Is Multi-Colored In My World touched some deep fibers in my soul. G.Y.S. led a complex and passionate life, a unique, painful, loving and intense life breathed into this book and colored in ideas and words that I found myself un...more
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Silence Is Multi-Colored in My World is a beautiful and moving collection of essays, diary and blog entries written by a young deaf man, whom the reader comes to know as G.Y.S. A Russian national born in the Ukraine in 1978 and raised in an orphanage, G.Y.S. escaped the horrors of the orphanage during his adolescence ending up on the streets and forced into prostitution. He was rescued by an unnamed foreigner who bought his freedom and brought him to Germany where they settled in the co...more
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Both traditionally and independently published, Red Haircrow is an award-winning author of fiction and non-fiction, poet, private chef and former law enforcement officer of Native American (Chiricahua Apache/Cherokee) descent who lives in Berlin, Germany. They are also a Psychology major and operate the indie publishing label "Flying With Red Haircrow."
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