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When Jennifer Amy Rose's firstborn baby fails her postnatal hearing test, Rose is stunned. How will she and her husband, both hearing, raise a deaf child? Rose then discovers her hidden family history, going back generations to the ghettos of Eastern Europe and the culture of shame that was attached to the 'deaf and dumb'. Now the parent of two congenitally deaf children, Rose shares her journey into the modern world of the hearing impaired, but also travels back in time to imagine her silent relatives, who showed surprising creativity in a world that chose to ignore them.

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Deep and moving truths fall out of this enchanting memoir, as deafness becomes a means of exploring the grave obstacles we all face in knowing what it is like to be another. --Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction <br> This beautiful book is about listening--really listening--to children, history, and one's own knowing heart. It's an exquisite memoir, crossed with poetry and the unmistakable shine of truth. --Catherine Newman, author of Waiting for Birdy <br> With profound honesty and endearing humility, Rosner writes about the searing emotional challenges that parents can face, and about absorbing these lessons and moving into deeper wisdom. A beautiful, deeply felt exploration of love and hard choices. --Josh Swiller, author of The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa <br> This wrenching journey into deafness from the standpoint of a mother, a wife, a daughter, a philosopher, and a Jew explores the meaningb

Deep and moving truths fall out of this enchanting memoir, as deafness becomes a means of exploring the grave obstacles we all face in knowing what it is like to be another. --Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction <br> This beautiful book is about listening--really listening--to children, history, and one's own knowing heart. It's an exquisite memoir, crossed with poetry and the unmistakable shine of truth. --Catherine Newman, author of Waiting for Birdy <br> With profound honesty and endearing humility, Rosner writes about the searing emotional challenges that parents can face, and about absorbing these lessons and moving into deeper wisdom. A beautiful, deeply felt exploration of love and hard choices. --Josh Swiller, author of The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa <br> This wrenching journey into deafness from the standpoint of a mother, a wife, a daughter, a philosopher, and a Jew explores the meaning

Rosner turns what could have been a depressing story into a gentle meditation on sound and silence, love and family. She writes with honesty and empathy... She fills the discussion with philosophy and grace. --Publishers Weekly Deep and moving truths fall out of this enchanting memoir, as deafness becomes a means of exploring the grave obstacles we all face in knowing what it is like to be another. --Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction This beautiful book is about listening--really listening--to children, history, and one's own knowing heart. It's an exquisite memoir, crossed with poetry and the unmistakable shine of truth. --Catherine Newman, author of Waiting for Birdy With profound honesty and endearing humility, Rosner writes about the searing emotional challenges that parents can face, and about absorbing these lessons and moving into deeper wisdom. A beautiful, deeply felt exploration of love and hard choices. --Josh Swiller, author of The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa This wrenching journey into deafness from the standpoint of a mother, a wife, a daughter, a philosopher, and a Jew explores the meaning of sound in a soundless world. If a Tree Falls shows the extent to which what we hear comes not only from our contemporaries but from the people who came before us and those who will succeed us. --Ilan Stavans, author of On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language Jennifer Rosner's If a Tree Falls is the kind of memoir that reminds the reader how we are all part of the same long line: complicated selves finding our way in a world that challenges us to discover our deeper resilience and untold strengths. --Vicki Forman, author of This Lovely Life: A Memoir of Premature Motherhood Deep and moving truths fall out of this enchanting memoir, as deafness becomes a means of exploring the grave obstacles we all face in knowing what it is like to be another. Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction This beautiful book is about listeningreally listeningto children, history, and one's own knowing heart. It's an exquisite memoir, crossed with poetry and the unmistakable shine of truth. Catherine Newman, author of Waiting for Birdy With profound honesty and endearing humility, Rosner writes about the searing emotional challenges that parents can face, and about absorbing these lessons and moving into deeper wisdom. A beautiful, deeply felt exploration of love and hard choices. Josh Swiller, author of The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa This wrenching journey into deafness from the standpoint of a mother, a wife, a daughter, a philosopher, and a Jew explores the meaning of sound in a soundless world. If a Tree Falls shows the extent to which what we hear comes not only from our contemporaries but from the people who came before us and those who will succeed us. Ilan Stavans, author of On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language Jennifer Rosner's If a Tree Falls is the kind of memoir that reminds the reader how we are all part of the same long line: complicated selves finding our way in a world that challenges us to discover our deeper resilience and untold strengths. Vicki Forman, author of This Lovely Life: A Memoir of Premature Motherhood Deep and moving truths fall out of this enchanting memoir, as deafness becomes a means of exploring the grave obstacles we all face in knowing what it is like to be another. --Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction This beautiful book is about listening--really listening--to children, history, and one's own knowing heart. It's an exquisite memoir, crossed with poetry and the unmistakable shine of truth. --Catherine Newman, author of Waiting for Birdy With profound honesty and endearing humility, Rosner writes about the searing emotional challenges that parents can face, and about absorbing these lessons and moving into deeper wisdom. A beautiful, deeply felt exploration of love and hard choices. --Josh Swiller, author of The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa This wrenching journey into deafness from the standpoint of a mother, a wife, a daughter, a philosopher, and a Jew explores the meaning of sound in a soundless world. If a Tree Falls shows the extent to which what we hear comes not only from our contemporaries but from the people who came before us and those who will succeed us. --Ilan Stavans, author of On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language Jennifer Rosner's If a Tree Falls is the kind of memoir that reminds the reader how we are all part of the same long line: complicated selves finding our way in a world that challenges us to discover our deeper resilience and untold strengths. --Vicki Forman, author of This Lovely Life: A Memoir of Premature Motherhood

Deep and moving truths fall out of this enchanting memoir, as deafness becomes a means of exploring the grave obstacles we all face in knowing what it is like to be another. --Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction <br><br> This beautiful book is about listening--really listening--to children, history, and one's own knowing heart. It's an exquisite memoir, crossed with poetry and the unmistakable shine of truth. --Catherine Newman, author of Waiting for Birdy <br><br> With profound honesty and endearing humility, Rosner writes about the searing emotional challenges that parents can face, and about absorbing these lessons and moving into deeper wisdom. A beautiful, deeply felt exploration of love and hard choices. --Josh Swiller, author of The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa <br><br> This wrenching journey into deafness from the standpoint of a mother, a wife, a daughter, a philosopher, and a Jew explores the meaning of sound in a soundless world. If a Tree Falls shows the extent to which what we hear comes not only from our contemporaries but from the people who came before us and those who will succeed us. --Ilan Stavans, author of On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language <br><br> Jennifer Rosner's If a Tree Falls is the kind of memoir that reminds the reader how we are all part of the same long line: complicated selves finding our way in a world that challenges us to discover our deeper resilience and untold strengths. --Vicki Forman, author of This Lovely Life: A Memoir of Premature Motherhood <br>

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Jennifer Rosner is the author of the memoir If A Tree Falls: A Family's Quest to Hear and Be Heard and the novel The Yellow Bird Sings. Her children's book, The Mitten String, is a Sydney Taylor Book Award Notable. Jennifer's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Massachusetts Review, The Forward, Good Housekeeping, and elsewhere. She lives in western Massachusetts with her family.

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