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Dumb: Living Without a Voice by Georgia Webber

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kathy123123's review

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3.0

Powerful but feels incomplete

_bb's review

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3.0

Nice drawings which conveyed a lot of emotion and feeling. The narrative was ok. I like the premise, and it gives you some feel for personal struggle through a change of ableness.

colapola's review

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3.0

It's a book with a lot of heart. Doesn't resolve, but I think that is the point.

There are a lot of different ways to read this book, which feels like it has a lot of potential but came up a little short. It's still an excellent read and fascinating to see how Webber experienced and persevered, while also providing an interesting window into Quebec and its health care system. The beginning of the book made me think about more figurative aspects of voicelessness, and I wish this had been followed up on more.

goldandsalt's review

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5.0

Wow, that was beautiful and did not resolve at all.

cait_s's review

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3.0

A story of a woman who overused her voice, until the pain drove her to silence, and her struggles to make a living, heal, deal with doctors, and still communicate with friends and family.

The style is rough and emotional, evocative, but sometimes unreadable. Does it capture the feeling of being silenced? Yes. But I couldn't quite tell what was going on in the most chaotic places, where the writing overlaps the images, scribbled and frenetic.

And the story doesn't quite feel complete. There's a start of a sense of understanding of her particular relation to her voice, and to being voiceless, but just the start.