Five Flavors of Dumb by Antony John
When Antony John’s wife challenged him to write a book about rock music and its personalities from a deaf person’s point of view, Five Flavors of Dumb was the result. Synopsis Eighteen-year-old Piper Vaughn lost her hearing in fifth grade. Her speech is pretty clear,...
The Fifty-Year-Old Question For My Deaf Sister
There are many moments in my books when Debbie (who can hear) wonders what Krista (who is deaf) might be thinking. The child had no language. Tantrums occurred on a regular basis, and the rest of the family tried hard via charades to figure out what she wanted. But...
The Silence Between Us
There’s a difference between deaf and Deaf. The former is a physical condition, the latter is an identity. Having grown up with a deaf sibling, I’d always been aware of the frustrations in communication between the hearing and the deaf, but until recent years I had...