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"This memoir is an unflinching look at the life experience of a woman struggling with identity and isolation. In harrowing yet lyrical prose, Pauline Leader assails her poverty and Jewish heritage and longs to fit in with her "American" peers. Born in 1908, she describes her home life as the daughter of Polish immigrants who run a butcher's market and boarding houses in a small New England town. Frequent beatings and sinister remarks issued by her...
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Bernard Braggs' series of stories of his life and career--growing up as a deaf child in a deaf family, working with Marcel Marceau, developing the sign-mime theater, and helping to found the National Theatre of the Deaf. Based on his fascinating autobiography, Lessons in laughter, Bragg's memories are amusing, painful, outrageous and above all, inspiring to Deaf and hearing persons alike.
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