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Sounds Like Home: Growing Up Black and Deaf in the South

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This book makes one feel as if he/she is living the moment(s). The author writes from the depth of her soul and it is evident that she speaks not only of herself, growing up Black and Deaf in the deep South, but also for her other Deaf brothers and sisters whom she came to consider her extended family and the difficulties of adjusting to her hearing loss at such a tender age. This is definitely a "must read" book.

I could not put this book down! A well written and extremely discriptive story! I felt every emotion!

I really enjoyed this book. The author described every moment in her life with such detail, it felt as if I were there with her. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants inspiration.

This book makes one feel as if he/she is living the moment(s). The author writes from the depth of her soul and it is evident that she speaks not only of herself, growing up Black and Deaf in the deep South, but also for her other Deaf brothers and sisters whom she came to consider her extended family and the difficulties of adjusting to her hearing loss at such a tender age. This is definitely a "must read" book.

This book makes one feel as if he/she is living the moment(s). The author writes from the depth of her soul and it is evident that she speaks not only of herself, growing up Black and Deaf in the deep South, but also for her other Deaf brothers and sisters whom she came to consider her extended family and the difficulties of adjusting to her hearing loss at such a tender age. This is definitely a "must read" book.

I really loved this book.I couldn't put it down.She made a lot ofdeaf friends at the school.She also made some blind friends.I laughed and cryed with her.You should get this book.

This book desperately wanted to be "Having Our Say" by the Delaney Sisters. Perhaps, if it had an editor, it would have been. As it stands, it provides a historical perspective of African American Deaf culture, but its text does not flow very smoothly.

that I found this ... well ... boring? I suppose, on the one hand, I should be glad that Ms. Wright had a relatively uneventful and happy life, despite growing up both black and disabled in the mid-20th century rural south; but, frankly, happy and uneventful lives don't make for very interesting reading.