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Loading... Mean Little deaf Queer: A Memoir (edition 2010)by Terry Galloway
Work InformationMean Little deaf Queer: A Memoir by Terry Lynn Galloway
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In 1959, the year Terry Galloway turned nine, the voices of everyone she loved began to disappear. No one yet knew that an experimental antibiotic given to her mother had wreaked havoc on her fetal nervous system, eventually causing her to go deaf. As a self-proclaimed "child freak," she acted out her fury with her boxy hearing aids and Coke-bottle glasses by faking her own drowning at a camp for crippled children. Ever since that first real-life performance, Galloway has used theater, whether onstage or off, to defy and transcend her reality. With disarming candor, she writes about her mental breakdowns, her queer identity, and living in a silent, quirky world populated by unforgettable characters. What could have been a bitter litany of complaint is instead an unexpectedly hilarious and affecting take on life. No library descriptions found. |
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Author Terry Galloway was born in post-WWII Germany; her father was a Cold-War era American spy. Galloway inherited his ability to act as if she were someone else. Despite her difficulties with hearing (even with hearing aids) and enunciation, Galloway devotes her life to theater, where she makes a fulfilling, if sometimes impoverished, life for herself. She also finds true love and some measure of mental stability, despite some severe episodes of dissociation and depression. As other readers have commented, the first half of the book is more engaging than the second. Still, I recommend this book. (