{"product_id":"the-quiet-ear-raymond-antrobus-9780593732106","title":"The Quiet Ear: An Investigation of Missing Sound: A Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this groundbreaking memoir, an acclaimed young poet explores what it means to live in the \"in-betweenness\" of the deaf and hearing worlds.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eI live with the aid of deafness. Like poetry, it has given me an art, a history, a culture and a tradition to live through. This book charts that art in the hopes of offering a map, a mirror, a small part of a larger story.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the hospital where Raymond Antrobus was born, a midwife snapped her fingers by his ears and gauged his response. It was his first hearing test, and he passed. For years, Antrobus lived as a deaf person in the hearing world, before he was diagnosed at the age of six.\u003cbr\u003eThis \"in-betweenness\" was a space he would occupy in other areas of his life too. The son of a Jamaican father and white British mother, growing up in East London, it was easy for him to fall through the cracks. Growing up, he was told that he wasn't smart enough, wasn't black enough, wasn't deaf enough. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt was only when he was fitted with hearing aids at the age of seven, that he began to discover his missing sounds: the high pitches of whistles, birds, alarms, the \"sh, ch, ba, th\" sounds in speech--all of it missing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Quiet Ear \u003c\/i\u003eis an attempt to fill in those missing sounds in Antrobus' own life, and how they formed his hybrid deaf identity. It's a story of a journey of finding your path when there are no signs to show the way, and a testament to the people--his parents and teachers, artists, writers, and musicians--who helped form his language: spoken, written, and signed. It's also about becoming a father to a hearing son, and trying to know the ways in which they might understand and misunderstand one another. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWeaving together memoir, criticism, and cultural history, and touching on both the spectrum of the deaf experience and how society fails deaf people, Antrobus finds his own way to reclaim his deafness as a power and a joy, and to reconcile his relationship to words and the world around him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Raymond Antrobus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0593732103\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593732106\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hogarth Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/19\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs","brand":"Raymond Antrobus","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46618242777343,"sku":"9780593732106","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_272e6f87-2d80-4089-836c-ebcc49ce2c0f.jpg?v=1740069555","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-quiet-ear-raymond-antrobus-9780593732106","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}