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Chattering
Chattering: Stories | Louise Stern
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An extraordinary debut collection of stories, which reveal how the world looks when you're young, hip, wild, and deaf Louise Stern's stories are peopled with brave young girls, out to party, travel the world, go a little bit wild. The one thing that marks them out from their peers is that they have grown up deaf. They communicate with the outside world via a complicated mixture of sign language, lipreading, notescribbling, guesswork, and instinct. Yet they are full of daring, ready for adventures that take them into unfamiliar places and strange, cockeyed relationships with people whose actions they observe, but never wholly understand. It is this sense of dislocation from common experience that marks out Louise Stern's original voice. She is fully engaged in the world we recognize and share, but the way she observes it sets her apart. Her eyes are keen; she notices things we would never see. She is quick to judge, wary, suspicious, and vulnerable. She experiences the world like a voyeur, always watching, yet able to retreat to an interior silence that nobody from the outside can ever reach.
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Chattering: Stories | Louise Stern
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#chatterday @AllDebooks

Sunny day in WI today - I hope to weed my flower beds while listening to the latest Stephen King. I think I will start the next #sundaybuddyread later as well, had so much fun last month with that. Have a great Saturday!!

Chat? @TheSpineView @AmyG

TheSpineView 🥰😊🌞 3d
AmyG Thank you for the invite but all my kids and Grandson are coming today for the week. 3d
peaKnit @AmyG enjoy the visit! ❤️ 3d
Lesliereadsalot Have a great week with the family. Sounds wonderful. 🩷 2d
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Chattering: Stories | Louise Stern
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#chatterday @AllDebooks - Thank you for the tag @TheSpineView

Celebrating my birthday today with ice, heat, painkillers and cake! Nerve pain from something in my back. But also reading my #sundaybuddyread in the sunshine for the win! As things calm down I may even run to town to get chocolate and cheese. 🎉

TheBookHippie HAPPIEST OF BIRTHDAYS!!! Hope your pain passes. 2w
dabbe HB! Hope those painkillers kick in so you can truly relax! 💚💜💚 2w
TheSpineView YW! I know the joys of nerve pain. Have a great birthday and feel better! 2w
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IriDas Happy Birthday. 🎁🎂🎉🎊🎈 Driving to town would probably be a better idea than running right now. 😉 2w
Deblovestoread Happy birthday 🎂. Hope the pain abates and you enjoy your day! 2w
Amiable Happy birthday! 🎉🎊🎂 2w
Ruthiella Oof! Hope you feel better soon! Happy Birthday! 🥳🥳🥳 2w
Lesliereadsalot Happiest birthday! 🎂🎉🥳 2w
JessClark78 Happy Birthday! 🎊🎂🎉 2w
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Mrs_B
Mrs_B
Chattering: Stories | Louise Stern
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This book is Stern‘s debut from 2010 and is a collection of short stories. The characters are reckless but each story left me wanting to know more. Several of the stories touch on deaf people feeling isolated and struggling to communicate. The writing is good, and I got the impression of a writer feeling their way towards being a great one.

Mrs_B @jenniferw88 would you like me to drop it in the post to you? 13mo
jenniferw88 Would you mind? Yes, please - I need a book by a deaf/hard of hearing author for a reading challenge and struggling to find one! Thank you so much! 13mo
Mrs_B @jenniferw88 of course! I‘ll get it sent out later this week. I can also recommend this one if you need any more!
[tagged book]Deaf Utopia: A Memoirand a Love Letter to a Way of Life
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Chattering: Stories | Louise Stern
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When Shaun Bythell in “The diary of a bookseller” mentioned meeting this author and her book I knew it was going on the list. I‘ve been keeping an eye out for books about deaf culture as I learn BSL and was delighted to come across a new one. Although I have to say inside another book wasn‘t how I expected to!

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