Mean little deaf queer : a memoir / Terry Galloway

By:

GALLOWAY, Terry

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Boston : Beacon Press, c2009.Description: xvii, 230p. 22cmISBN:

978-0-8070-7290-5

Subject(s):

Deaf women -- United States -- Biography

DDC classification:

22nd ed. 362.42092 GAL

Summary: Terry Galloway 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 out her fury with her boxy hearing aids and Coke-bottle glasses by faking her own drowning at a camp for crippled children.

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Terry Galloway 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 out her fury with her boxy hearing aids and Coke-bottle glasses by faking her own drowning at a camp for crippled children.

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