This portrait of New York's Lexington School for the Deaf is not just a work of journalism. It is also a memoir, since Leah Hager Cohen grew up on the school's campus and her father is its superintendent. As a hearing person raised among the deaf, Cohen appreciates both the intimate textures of that silent world and the gulf that separates it from our own.
Leah Hager Cohen is the author of four works of nonfiction, including Train Go Sorry and Glass, Paper, Beans, and four novels, most recently The Grief of Others, which was longlisted for the Orange Prize and a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Among the other honors her books have received are New York Times Notable Book (five times); American Library Association Ten Best Books of the Year; Toronto Globe and Mail Ten Best Books of the Year; and Massachusetts Must Read Book.
She holds the Jenks Chair in Contemporary American Letters at the College of the Holy Cross, and teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review.
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