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Far from Home: Memories of World War II and Afterward
Mary Herring Wright

Gallaudet University Press, 2005

?She?s got no more business there than a pig has with a Bible.? That?s what her father said when Mary Herring announced that she would be moving to Washington, DC, in late1942. Recently graduated from the North Carolina School for Black Deaf and Blind Students, Mary had been invited to the nation?s capital by a cousin to see a specialist about her hearing loss. Though nothing could be done about her deafness, Mary quickly proved her father wrong ...

Sounds Like Home: Growing Up Black and Deaf in the South

8 reviews
Mary Herring Wright

Gallaudet University Press, 1999

A Wonderful Book!!
I could not put this book down! A well written and extremely discriptive story! I felt every emotion!