My Sense of Silence
Subtitle: Memoirs of a Childhood with Deafness (Creative Nonfiction Series)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: November 24, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780252025334
Subjects: Biography: general; Disability: social aspects; Family; Sociology Of The Mentally And Physically Challenged; Social Science; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; USA; Childhood Memoir; Personal Memoirs; Specific Groups - Special Needs; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; Handicapped; Sociology - Marriage & Family; 1949-; Biography; Case studies; Children of deaf parents; Davis, Lennard J.,; Deaf; Deaf parents; Family relationships; United States
First sentence: When I lay in bed at night, I did not experience what most children feel: that sense of security and comfort, of being in the lap and bosom of the family.