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Praise for A Loss for Words

“A deeply moving, often humorous, and beautiful account of what it means to be the hearing child of profoundly deaf parents, to love and be loved by them, but also to experience almost from infancy the ‘unbridgeable gulf’ between the deaf and the hearing.

Lou Ann Walker grew up bilingual, which is not unusual in this nation.

Lou Ann Walker grew up bilingual, which is not unusual in this nation.

From the time she was a toddler, Lou Ann Walker acted as the ears and voice for her parents, who lost their hearing at a young age.

Lou Ann Walker is an author and a professor in the MFA in Creative Writing and Literature Program at Stony Brook Southampton, as well as a founding Editor.

Lou Ann Walker is a writer, editor and professor.

A deeply moving, often humorous, and beautiful account of what it means to be the hearing child of profoundly deaf parents.

Much has been written about this hidden gulf, whose existence is unknown to most of us, but I have rarely read anything on the subject more powerful or poignant than this extraordinary personal account.”

— Oliver Sacks

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“So profoundly other is the unhearing culture.

. .that moving it into a language we learn by hearing took both gifts and a nearly savage determination.”

— The New York Times Book Review

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“This warmly touching and humorous book is addressed to everyone whohas ever lived in a family, which is to say all of us.”

— Durham Morning Herald

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“I did not dream there was such an affecting story to be told of a close, loving family in which both parents are d