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Myron Uhlberg's memoir of growing up with deaf parents, Hands of My Father, has already attracted a lot of attention in the mainstream press for its depiction of how much responsibility young Myron assumed, acting as his father's interpreter from about the age of six...he doesn't mention doing this in quite the same way for his mother...maybe the neighbor women were more patient at accepting handwritten notes or maybe she was content to allow her husband to be the public face of her family in the world...it's hard for a frustrated wannabe egomaniac like myself to believe there were ever women that domestically inclined, but that's material for another book.
It is hard to believe that only within one person's lifetime, there was no closed-captioning and no way for ordinary folks to get sign-language interpretation, even when their seizing second child needs a doctor.

Uhlberg's memoir deftly walks the line between talking about the extra pressures placed on him by his parents' living in a society that refers to them as "dummy" or the "deafies in 3a" and love and respect, as well as the occasional bittersweet twinge of nostalgia. The overall effect of the book is like looking at a photo album, and not just because Uhlberg sprinkles photos throughout. The stories themselves are like written snapshots, offering an immediate glimpse into an ordinary moment in an extraordinary life. If, on occasion, some of the snapshots seem to be slightly misplaced, it only adds to the overall humanity in the work.
I especially thought that the author wrote about his parents as strong personalities in their own right(I thought it was especially cool that Myron's father saw something of his own struggle for respect in Jackie Robinson's historic first season with the Brooklyn Dodgers.)
Mr Uhlberg might have missed getting information through auditory means, but he was very perceptive in many other ways that are important to note. It is really easy for disabled people like me to get lost in documenting the awful conditions experienced by PWD in previous generations, but we should honor their struggles, not blame them for being held back.
I would like to see a sequel about the adult relationship between Myron and his father if the author would be up for it as "Hands" ends with Myron as a college freshman in the fifties.
There's an intriguing essay by Myron about language, here.

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