Mean little deaf queer : a memoir /
In 1959, the year the author turned nine, the voices of everyone she loved began to disappear. No one yet knew that an experimental antibiotic given to her mother had wreaked havoc on her fetal nervous system, eventually causing her to go deaf. As a self-proclaimed "child freak," she acted...
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Boston :
Beacon Press,
[2009]
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Nine
- Part I: Drowning. Them and me ; Visions ; Presto change-o ; Meaner ; The performance of drowning ; Lost boy
- Part II: Passing. Little-d deaf ; On being told no ; Passing strange ; Drag acts ; Shhhhhh! ; Jobs for the deaf ; The shallow end
- Part III: Emerging. Scare ; Who died and what killed them ; Why I should matter
- Epilogue: A happy life....