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100 1 $aSwiller, Josh.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2007019922
245 14 $aThe unheard :$ba memoir of deafness and Africa /$cJosh Swiller.
250 $a1st Holt paperbacks ed.
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300 $a265 pages :$billustrations, map ;$c21 cm.
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490 1 $aA Holt paperback
520 1 $a""These are hearing aids. They take the sounds of the world and amplify them." Josh Swiller recited this speech to himself on the day he arrived in Mununga, a dusty village on the shores of Lake Mweru. Deaf since a young age, Swiller spent his formative years in frustrated limbo on the sidelines of the hearing world. So he decided to abandon the well-trodden path after college, setting out to find a place so far removed that his deafness would become irrelevant." "That place turned out to be Zambia, where Swiller worked as a Peace Corps volunteer for two years. There he would encounter a world where violence, disease, and poverty were the mundane facts of life. Spending his days working in the health clinic with Augustine Jere - a chubby, world-weary chess aficionado and a steadfast friend - Swiller finally found, he believed, a place where his deafness didn't interfere, a place where he felt at home. Until, that is, a nightmarish incident blasted away his newfound convictions."--BOOK JACKET.
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