"I feel like I'm always evolving, changing, and I think that's part of life as a deaf person."
"I'm a parent. I'm a writer. I'm a deaf person."
"I mean, anytime people are here, this is the spot. We all sit and we meet around here."
"When she lost her hearing in middle school, music became a facade - a way to convince herself and others her deafness wasn't really happening. Now music is mostly about a physical feeling."
Sara Novic describes language as powerful for connection and isolation. She lost her hearing at age 12, learned American Sign Language, and found a deaf community. Her memoir centers motherhood, deaf history, and how deafness shapes her identity and parenting. She identifies as a parent, a writer, and a deaf person, and describes ongoing personal evolution. At home in the Philadelphia suburbs, she keeps a room of toys and musical instruments as a gathering place. She plays piano chords and signs them, linking music to other languages she knows, including ASL, English, and Croatian. After losing hearing, music shifted from denial to physical vibration and feeling.
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