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Aquarium / Yaara Shehori ; translated from the Hebrew by Todd Hasak-Lowy.

Aquarium / Yaara Shehori ; translated from the Hebrew by Todd Hasak-Lowy.
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F SHEH
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Reserve Title Catalogue Record 798295
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ISBN 9780374105921 (hardback)
Classification F SHEH
Personal Name Sheḥori, Yaʻarah
Uniform Title Aḳṿaryum.
Title Aquarium / Yaara Shehori ; translated from the Hebrew by Todd Hasak-Lowy.
Edition First American edition.
Production & Copyright Details New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
©2021
Physical Description 255 pages ; 22 cm
Content type text
Note Originally published in Hebrew in 2016 by Keter, Israel.
Summary Note Sisters Lili and Dori Ackerman are deaf. Their parents beautiful, despondent Anna; fearsome and admired Alex are deaf, too. Alex, a scrap metal collector and sometime prophet, opposes any attempt to integrate with the hearing; to escape their destructive influence, the girls are educated at home. Deafness is no disability, their father says, but an alternative way of life, preferable by far to that of the strident, hypocritical hearing. Living in a universe of their own creation, feared by and disdainful of the other children on their block, Lili and Dori grow up semi-feral. Lili writes down everything that happens just the facts. And Dori, the reader, follows her older sister wherever she goes. United against a hostile and alien world, the girls and their parents watch the hearing like they would fish in an aquarium. But when the hearing intrude and a devastating secret is revealed, the cracks that begin to form in the sisters' world will have consequences that span the rest of their lives. Separated from the family that ingrained in them a sense of uniqueness and alienation, Lili and Dori must relearn how to live, and how to tell their own stories.
Subject - Topical Term Sisters -- Fiction
Deaf -- Fiction
Families -- Fiction
Subject - Genre Domestic fiction
Added Entry - Personal Name Hasak-Lowy, Todd, 1969- translator.
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