uhlberg, myron

The author reflects on his experiences growing up in Brooklyn during the 1940s and being the oldest son of two deaf parents.

The author reflects on his experiences growing up in Brooklyn during the 1940s and being the oldest son of two deaf parents.

By turns heart-tugging and hilarious, Myron Uhlberg's memoir tells the story of growing up as the hearing son of deaf parents--and his life in a world that he found unaccountably beautiful, even as he longed to escape it.