Why read Train Go Sorry?

Book cover of Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf World

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A “remarkable and insightful” look inside a New York City school for the deaf, blending memoir and history (The New York Times Book Review).

Leah Hager Cohen is part of the hearing world, but grew up among the deaf community. Her Russian-born grandfather had been deaf—a fact hidden by…

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Leah Hager Cohen grows up at the Lexington School for the Deaf, in Queens, New York, even though she has perfect hearing. Her hearing father is the director of childcare and resides with his family in an apartment on the third floor of the building. Leah is surrounded by Deaf Culture and has a feeling, at a young age, she is “missing the boat”—a phrase translated into ASL as “Train go sorry.”

Through Cohen’s experience growing up hearing at a school for the deaf, we get a unique perspective of Deaf Culture. Issues handled are the isolation problems deaf students…

From Michael's list on The best books on the effect of deafness and understanding deaf people.