false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223317522m/3899622.jpg 3899622 1 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. “Does sound have rhythm?” my father asked. “Does it rise and fall like the ocean? Does it come and go like the wind?” Such were the kinds of questions that Myron Uhlberg’s deaf father asked him from earliest childhood, in his eternal quest to decipher, and to understand, the elusive nature of sound. Quite a challenge for a young boy, and one of many he would face. Uhlberg’s first language was American Sign Language, the first sign he learned: “I love you.” But his second language was spoken English—and no sooner did he learn it than he was called upon to act as his father’s ears and mouth in the stores and streets of the neighborhood beyond their silent apartment in Brooklyn. Resentful as he sometimes was of the heavy burdens heaped on his small shoulders, he nonetheless adored his parents, who passed on to him their own passionate engagement with life. These two remarkable people married and had children at the absolute bottom of the Great Depression—an expression of extraordinary optimism, and typical of the joy and resilience they were able to summon at even the darkest of times. From the beaches of Coney Island to Ebbets Field, where he watches his father’s hero Jackie Robinson play ball, from the branch library above the local Chinese restaurant where the odor of chow mein rose from the pages of the books he devoured to the hospital ward where he visits his polio-afflicted friend, this is a memoir filled with stories about growing up not just as the child of two deaf people but as a book-loving, mischief-making, tree-climbing kid during the remarkably eventful period that spanned the Depression, the War, and the early fifties. 3944930 3 2 2009 Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love total:227|5:4|4:7|3:6|2:1|1:0| 227 937 577 107 4 15 false false Thu Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 05 22:33:16 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 09 15:36:46 -0700 2008
When I was young, I was obsessed with people who were "different." Constantly experimenting with what it would be like to have a lisp or a limp or an accent o...more...]]> 5 2 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 23 21:44:34 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 06 10:47:27 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun Aug 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 27 18:13:01 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 05 18:24:00 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Feb 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 06:09:39 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 12:58:22 -0800 2009
As an American Sign Language (ASL) instructor with a background in Deaf history and culture, I loved *Hands of My Father*.

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