The book brings awareness to the deaf community’s struggles in education (when no access to deaf schools) and shine a loving light on the deaf culture. It is centered around the unfortunate issue of deaf schools being closed down, and the spread pressure for cochlear implants.
This was a quick read, the book is hard to put down even though it just makes you soooo angry at the stupidity and cruelty of the men (males) in charge of that society. When they are 16, the girls are sent on exile in the woods for a year to “get rid of their magic(k)” while trying to survive the wild – which involves killing each other – to return to their village pure and ready for marriage (often times to a much older man, that of course they had no say in choosing).
The book does have some problematic developments and miss the true feminist mark but it was fast-paced and suspenseful enough to go through it in a very short time.
It’s an autobiography so it’s hard to critique but it was interesting to get to know more about someone you come across to on internet and what their journey was. Laura’s was much darker than I expected.
I liked me some Paris location and I was quite into the book, the search, the mystery, but the resolution… It started strong but ended up being disappointing.
Leave a Reply