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This book also offers an evocation of a vanished New York City of close-knit Jewish neighbourhoods, where people had to endure the poverty and turmoil of their place and time - the Bronx and Brooklyn of the 1930s and 1940s.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49595352023313,"sku":"GOR002101133","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49618644107537,"sku":"GOR012280357","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53514217914641,"sku":"GOR006288296","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0749910984.jpg?v=1750913922"},{"product_id":"bravo-carrie-book-ruth-sidransky-9781505646894","title":"Bravo Carrie","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49888997835025,"sku":"GOR013807993","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51031563895057,"sku":"NIN9781505646894","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1505646898.jpg?v=1751054575"},{"product_id":"in-silence-book-ruth-sidransky-9780312045890","title":"In Silence","description":"At last, Ruth Sidranksy's groundbreaking book \u003ci\u003eIn Silence: Growing Up Hearing in a Deaf World\u003c\/i\u003e is back in print. Her account of growing up as the hearing daughter of deaf Jewish parents in the Bronx and Brooklyn during the 1930s and1940s reveals the challenges deaf people faced during the Depression and afterward. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInside her family's apartment, Sidransky knew a warm, secure place. She recalls her earliest memories of seeing words fall from her parents' hands. She remembers her father entertaining the family endlessly with his stories, and her mother's story of tying a red ribbon to herself and her infant daughter to know when she needed anything in the night. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOutside the apartment, the cacophonous hearing world greeted Sidransky's family with stark stares of curiosity as though they were freaks. Always upbeat, her proud father still found it hard to earn a living. 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Her account of growing up as the hearing daughter of deaf Jewish parents in the Bronx and Brooklyn during the 1930s and 1940s reveals the challenges deaf people faced during the Depression and afterward. Inside her family's apartment, Sidransky knew a warm, secure place. She recalls her earliest memories of seeing words fall from her parents' hands. She remembers her father entertaining the family endlessly with his stories, and her mother's story of tying a red ribbon to herself and her infant daughter to know when she needed anything in the night. Outside the apartment, the cacophonous hearing world greeted Sidransky's family with stark stares of curiosity as though they were \"freaks.\" Always upbeat, her proud father still found it hard to earn a living. When Sidransky started school, she was placed in a class for special needs children until the prinicipal realized that she could hear and speak. Sidransky portrays her family with deep affection and honesty, and her frank account provides a living narrative of the Deaf experience in pre- and post-World War II America. \"In Silence\" has become an invaluable chronicle of a special time and place that will affect all who read it for years to come.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50391762305297,"sku":"CIN1563682877G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1563682877.jpg?v=1751118809"},{"product_id":"woman-s-primer-book-ruth-sidransky-9781505646924","title":"A Woman's Primer","description":"Women are amazing. Thus begins the entry for the letter A in Ruth Sidransky's glorious Primer, a journey through fragments of a long life that examines the unique strength of women through every part of the passage, ordinary days and extraordinary ones, difficulties and joy, sorrow and triumphs. Like the powerfully observed worlds of Annie Dillard and clarity of Joan Didion, Sidranksy looks into the beauty of the world as well as its dangers. Her language is as sharp as saw grass, her observations surprising and always profound. And when the grass leaves marks, Sidransky helps the wounded march through it and on, healing as they go. What of Sidransky's choices for the letters of A Woman's Primer? What words do young women need to keep close to their chests as they run through the field of the living, hearts open and filled with awe? All women must be brave. The world will throw powerful events toward each woman that she must address and overcome. She will meet love and learn to listen to its languages and meaning, learn to trust herself and her instincts. Kindness, safety, a sense of purpose and the comfort of family are also monumental in the lives of women. Sidransky, now 85, reaches into her life's long arc and finds modern pragmatism: Women need financial independence, meaningful work, jobs, respect, careers, healthcare, childcare, freedom of body and freedom of thought. In her 9th decade, A Woman's Primer is one of three books she will publish this year. Part memoir, part philosophical inquiry into the soul of women, Sidransky affirms the journey through it all, finally accepting that life exists for life itself, for the daffodil that comes up yellow every spring. Here is A Woman's Primer, the ABC's of a life, of a woman beginning again and again.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51331573874961,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51331576496401,"sku":"CIN1505646928G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52749721960721,"sku":"NIN9781505646924","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1505646928.jpg?v=1751179964"},{"product_id":"in-silence-book-ruth-sidransky-9780345374257","title":"In Silence","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52733950132497,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52733950296337,"sku":"GOR014604893","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780345374257.jpg?v=1763381625"},{"product_id":"reparations-book-ruth-sidransky-9781505646825","title":"Reparations","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52749719535889,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52749719830801,"sku":"NIN9781505646825","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781505646825.jpg?v=1763549762"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-ruth-sidransky.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}