A BIG-HEARTED, TRANSFORMATIVE MEMOIR’ NEW YORK TIMES ‘A QUIET REVOLUTION’ IRISH TIMES ‘SEARING . . . OFTEN HEART-RENDING’ GUARDIAN Raymond Antrobus was diagnosed as deaf at the age of six. He discovered he had missing sounds – bird calls, whistles, kettles, alarms. Teachers thought he was slow and disruptive, some didn’t believe he was deaf at all. The Quiet Ear tells his story – from childhood to fatherhood – and the stories of other D/deaf cultural figures, from painters to silent film stars, poets to performers – the inspiring models of D/deaf creativity Antrobus did not have growing up. Told with the electrifying prose of a poet, this groundbreaking and moving memoir explores family, identity, history and language, and what it means to be in a world saturated with noise. A TIME BOOK OF THE YEAR
