Guest Blog from Jennifer Rosner, author of If A Tree Falls

Jennifer Rosner wrote an extraordinary memoir about being the mother of two deaf children, but it's really more than that. It's truly a novel about what it means to be heard, how deafness is passed on through history and the controversy around sign language and cochlear implants. I was so knocked out by Rosner's book that I asked her if she'd write a guest blog, and she agreed. Many thanks, Jennifer.

Nearly every day, for the five years it took me to write If A Tree Falls, I marveled at...