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libraryrobin's review against another edition
3.0
The troubled and traumatic childhood of a CoDA, filled with anger, fear, loneliness, shame, abandonment, confusion, and embarrassment.
At times I felt affinity with Lenny, when he was forced to be an adult and interpret for his parents, when he had difficulty navigating the hearing world, when he could not express himself. I have felt his anger, still do.
A CoDA has one leg in the hearing world and the other in the Deaf world, with a home in neither. We are without a community that truly understands the trauma of our fractured nature, our solace is amongst fellow CoDAs.
At times I felt affinity with Lenny, when he was forced to be an adult and interpret for his parents, when he had difficulty navigating the hearing world, when he could not express himself. I have felt his anger, still do.
A CoDA has one leg in the hearing world and the other in the Deaf world, with a home in neither. We are without a community that truly understands the trauma of our fractured nature, our solace is amongst fellow CoDAs.
libraryrobin's review
3.0
The troubled and traumatic childhood of a CoDA, filled with anger, fear, loneliness, shame, abandonment, confusion, and embarrassment.
At times I felt affinity with Lenny, when he was forced to be an adult and interpret for his parents, when he had difficulty navigating the hearing world, when he could not express himself. I have felt his anger, still do.
A CoDA has one leg in the hearing world and the other in the Deaf world, with a home in neither. We are without a community that truly understands the trauma of our fractured nature, our solace is amongst fellow CoDAs.
At times I felt affinity with Lenny, when he was forced to be an adult and interpret for his parents, when he had difficulty navigating the hearing world, when he could not express himself. I have felt his anger, still do.
A CoDA has one leg in the hearing world and the other in the Deaf world, with a home in neither. We are without a community that truly understands the trauma of our fractured nature, our solace is amongst fellow CoDAs.
gothgf1567's review
3.0
Interesting look at intersections of growing up in a working-class, immigrant family in South Bronx with two deaf parents (though it can by no means define it for others) but also why is, like, every other metaphor/simile sex based? Also very disorganized and hard to follow a timeline, the author kept jumping around.
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