Love for a Deaf Rebel Audiobook Libro.fm

Description

Love for a Deaf Rebel introduces readers to Pearl a vivacious Canadian woman born into a silent world With pathos and nostalgia the hearing author recounts his rollercoaster ride with Pearl a deaf maverick who unknown to him had paranoid schizophrenia We follow their encounters through conversations written before the author learned sign language we go on their motorcycle ride to Guatemala we watch as the happy couple moves to Bowen Island a British Columbia community with just three paved roads Pearl and the author marry and build their dream home and hobby farm They encounter one obstacle after another while building their life together as Pearls perception of realityand crucially their perception of each otherbegins to change There are other books about schizophrenia in the family such as Hidden Valley Road and about deafhearing relationships such as Children of a Lesser God but none that tells the true story of a woman who struggled with both disabilities and her tumultuous romance