{"product_id":"in-silence-ruth-sidransky-9781563682872","title":"In Silence: Growing Up Hearing in a Deaf World","description":"At last, Ruth Sidranksy's groundbreaking book \u003ci\u003eIn Silence: Growing Up Hearing in a Deaf World\u003c\/i\u003e is back in print. Her account of growing up as the hearing daughter of deaf Jewish parents in the Bronx and Brooklyn during the 1930s and1940s reveals the challenges deaf people faced during the Depression and afterward. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInside her family's apartment, Sidransky knew a warm, secure place. She recalls her earliest memories of seeing words fall from her parents' hands. She remembers her father entertaining the family endlessly with his stories, and her mother's story of tying a red ribbon to herself and her infant daughter to know when she needed anything in the night. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOutside the apartment, the cacophonous hearing world greeted Sidransky's family with stark stares of curiosity as though they were \"freaks.\" Always upbeat, her proud father still found it hard to earn a living. When Sidransky started school, she was placed in a class for special needs children until the principal realized that she could hear and speak. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSidransky portrays her family with deep affection and honesty, and her frank account provides a living narrative of the Deaf experience in pre- and post-World War II America. \u003ci\u003eIn Silence\u003c\/i\u003e has become an invaluable chronicle of a special time and place that will affect all who read it for years to come.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ruth Sidransky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1563682877\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781563682872\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Gallaudet University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.11lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.54h x 6.06w x 0.93d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/2006 pg. 126\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2006 pg. 167","brand":"Ruth Sidransky","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48065708851455,"sku":"9781563682872","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f3e06ced-5bef-40d2-922f-a81bc75c4c87.jpg?v=1768676735","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/in-silence-ruth-sidransky-9781563682872","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}