{"title":"Christopher Jon Heuer","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"bug-book-christopher-jon-heuer-9781563683572","title":"BUG","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat you have in your hands is a bomb. But it is the kind you need to hold on to for dear life, not run away from.\u003cbr\u003e--From the Foreword, John Lee Clark \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChristopher Jon Heuer lost his hearing early, but not before being able to hear a lot as a kid. He also received a good education, both in a speech-oriented setting and a signing environment. These varied experiences provided him with the perfect background to write about biases he faced, not only those of a mostly oblivious hearing society, but also those of ideologically restrictive members of the Deaf community. \u003ci\u003eBUG: Deaf Identity and Internal Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e combines new work of Heuer's with his best columns from \u003ci\u003eThe Tactile Mind Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e and the National Association of the Deaf's \u003ci\u003eMind Over Matter\u003c\/i\u003e. He addresses all topics - exit interviews, baldness, faith healing, marriage, cats, Christmas trips, backyard campfires in boxer shorts - with a withering wit that spares no aspect of life and deafness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeing bugged for Heuer began early: When I was growing up, my mother's response to every problem I had was: 'Well, he just needs to adjust to his deafness.' Bloody nose? 'Chris, you need to adjust to your deafness.' Homework not done? 'I know it's hard adjusting to your deafness, honey, but .' Acne scarring? 'Lots of teenagers get zits, Chris. I know it's hard for you, dealing with this while trying to adjust to your .' He rebelled then, and continues through his even-handed irreverence in \u003ci\u003eBUG\u003c\/i\u003e, a bomb that should go off in everyone's consciousness about being deaf and Deaf.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50190738981137,"sku":"CIN1563683571VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52106587373841,"sku":"CIN1563683571G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1563683571.jpg?v=1750990953"},{"product_id":"tripping-the-tale-fantastic-book-christopher-jon-heuer-9781941960080","title":"Tripping the Tale Fantastic","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom haunted Civil War battlefields to a severed ear discovered on a nightly run; from lab-grown dinosaurs to forest creatures that steal away children under the cover of night; from deadly bio-engineered fleas to a burning teenage desire for cybernetic amputations: Deaf and hard of hearing authors from around the world bring you this fun, though oftentimes disturbing, collection of short fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo often the future we imagine is homogenous: everyone has the same baseline abilities and there is a presumption that all five senses are the norm. This collection has stories of people accessing new technologies, and people living in worlds where to hear is to be abnormal. There are stories that explore the imposition of language values on the Deaf community and the harm committed in the name of 'help.' And there are stories in which we get to experience how others communicate. A thought-provoking collection. --Farah Mendlesohn, author of \u003cem\u003eRhetorics of Fantasy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEven for someone like myself--a hearing person who has long been around the Deaf community--this anthology often gives insight into a series of deaf characters in a way perhaps no hearing writer ever could, from reading the innermost thoughts from a Deaf perspective in thriller\/horror to science fiction and fantasy, and every genre in between, whether it's 'The Ear, ' which interestingly recalls the old radio drama Suspense or the more chilling 'In the Haunted Darkness, ' which puts into words the feelings of likely more than a few people, sadly. More importantly, those stories without a deaf character highlight the most crucial takeaway: a deaf writer can world-build and set scenes as well as anyone. --Dave Galanter, author of \u003cem\u003eTroublesome Minds\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors include Kris Ashton, John Lee Clark, Michael R. Collings, Willy Conley, Bobby Cox, Daniel Crosby, Marsha Graham, Kristen Harmon, Lilah Katcher, David Langford, Raymond Luczak, A. M. Matte, Brighid Meredith, Kristen Ringman, Maverick Smith, Tonya Marie Stremlau, Jacob Waring, Joanne Yee, and Kelsey M. Young.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristopher Jon Heuer is the author of two books. 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