Leah Hager Cohen
Författare till Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf World
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Leah Hager Cohen, a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism, established herself as a serious writer in 1994 with her nonfiction book, Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf World. Chosen by the American Library Association as one of the best books of 1994, Inside a Deaf World details what it was like visa mer growing up as a hearing child around deaf children. Cohen's first fiction novel, Heat Lightning, is a coming-of-age story told from the point of view of two sisters, ages eleven and twelve, who have to deal with the death of their parents. (Bowker Author Biography) Leah Hager Cohen earned a BA in writing at Hampshire College & an MS from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. In addition to her non-fiction, she is the author of "Heat Lightning". She lives near Boston. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av Leah Hager Cohen
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- Födelsedag
- 1967
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Bostadsorter
- Belmont, Massachusetts, USA (2007 ∙ 1994 ∙ childhoood)
- Utbildning
- New York University
Hampshire College
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism - Agent
- Barney Karpfinger (The Karpfinger Agency, New York, NY)
- Kort biografi
- Married at age 27, had three children, divorced when the youngest was 1 years old. Lives with boyfriend and her three kids in Belmont, MA.
Her website: www.leahhagercohen.com
Her blogsite: http://loveasafoundobject.blogspot.co...
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- Verk
- 16
- Medlemmar
- 1,489
- Popularitet
- #17,248
- Betyg
- 3.5
- Recensioner
- 122
- ISBN
- 64
- Språk
- 6
from To & Fro by Leah Hager Cohen
Ani follows a man off “to and fro,” a journey in which she encounters different groups and new insights. Her first journey took place after she and her mother were exiled from their home in the middle of winter, during which Ani’s mother died.
Ani has a brown book, although she cannot read. A kitten she calls Company that she struggles to keep alive. A scroll in a bottle on a necklace.
Life is walking and arriving and leave-taking, each a place of learning and growth, each a place of gift receiving.
Turn the book around, and there is another story.
The psychologist diagnosed Oppositional defiant disorder. The psychotherapist mentioned executive function disorder. The neuropsychologist proclaimed Annamae had a “stellar brain.”
Annamae thought differently, deeply, and it made her lonely. She knew people could never understand each other, that words failed, language was a net through which words spilled “like pennies through the holes.” She would not do her creative writing assignment and was posed to fail the class. No one saw what she saw, the deadly seriousness of one’s complete control over the characters one created. She saw that letters had colors and personalities, and she recognized the stories that Rav Harriet told about alef-bet and the creation of the world.
She had a brown notebook called Company in which she wrote and drew, but lost it. She had a message in a bottle necklace, but it disappeared.
Fantasy or reality, each story is mesmerizing, taking one into an unforgettable and unique character’s deepest thoughts as she journeys through life. When you are finished reading both, you will want to turn the book again and keep reading, realizing how much more there is to discover.
Thanks to the publisher for a free book.… (mer)