{"product_id":"if-a-tree-falls-a-familys-quest-to-hear-and-be-heard-9781558616622","title":"If a Tree Falls: A Family's Quest to Hear and Be Heard","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eA revealing memoir of a family and a \"wrenching journey into deafness from the standpoint of a mother, a wife, a daughter, a philosopher, and a Jew\" (Ilan Stavans, author of \u003cem\u003eOn Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen her daughters were born deaf, Jennifer Rosner was stunned. Then she discovered a hidden history of deafness in her family, going back generations to the Jewish enclaves of Eastern Europe. Traveling back in time in her mind, she imagined her silent relatives, who showed surprising creativity in dealing with a world that preferred to ignore them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere, in a \"gentle meditation on sound and silence, love and family,\" Rosner shares her journey into the modern world of deafness, and the controversial decisions she and her husband made about hearing aids, cochlear implants and sign language (\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePunctuated by memories of being unheard, Rosner's imaginative odyssey of dealing with her daughters' deafness is at its heart a story of whether she--a mother with perfect hearing--can ever truly hear her children.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJennifer Rosner is the author of the memoir \u003cem\u003eIf A Tree Falls: A Family's Quest to Hear and Be Heard \u003c\/em\u003eand the novel \u003cem\u003eThe Yellow Bird Sings\u003c\/em\u003e. Her children's book, \u003cem\u003eThe Mitten String\u003c\/em\u003e, is a Sydney Taylor Book Award Notable. Jennifer's writing has appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Massachusetts Review, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Forward\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGood Housekeeping\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere. She lives in western Massachusetts with her family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Feminist Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50527834702098,"sku":"9781558616622","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fb6d0679-7d63-463d-82c8-3c90401b1c57.jpg?v=1731315049","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/if-a-tree-falls-a-familys-quest-to-hear-and-be-heard-9781558616622","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}