Showing posts with label Book Publishing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Book Publishing. Show all posts

Friday, October 18, 2013

CODA Kambri Crews and Burn Down The Ground

VIDEO: CODA - Kambri Crews and Burn Down The Ground: A Memoir:



NEW YORK CITY - Kambri Crews is an American comedic storyteller based in New York City and author of Burn Down The Ground: A Memoir, a book about her chaotic childhood with Deaf parents.



For fans of Jeannette Walls’ The Glass Castle, an unflinching, emotional memoir by the hearing daughter-CODA of two Deaf parents, about the rampant dysfunction of her rural Texas childhood and the searing violence that left her father serving a twenty-year prison sentence.



Successful New York producer and publicist Kambri Crews always knew that her childhood was unusual - she spent much of it in a tin shack deep with her family in the woods of Texas. But when, in her early 30s, her charismatic and adored father is sentenced to twenty years in prison for stabbing and nearly killing his girlfriend, she must confront for the first time his violent, destructive behavior.







In her brutally honest, completely captivating memoir, Crews struggles to forge a relationship with her incarcerated father and revisits her unconventional family and the long road she took to her current life. ... Read more reviews of BURN DOWN THE GROUND



Here’s what folks are saying about Kambri Crews and Burn Down the Ground: A Memoir:

“Poignant and unsettling.” - Kirkus Reviews.



“…a compelling testament to the strength of the human spirit.” - Booklist.



“Harrowing . . . A remarkable odyssey of scorched earth, collateral damage, and survival.” - Publishers Weekly.



“Kambri Crews has proven that absurdity, chaos and full blown dysfunction make for a fascinating memoir.” - Janeane Garofalo.



Visit Kambri Crews's official website: http://www.kambricrews.com | http://www.lovedaddy.org

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Kambri Crews/Wikipedia.org



Related Post: Kambri Crews: Songs in American Sign Language

Friday, December 16, 2011

Deaf Ethnicity and Ancestry - The People of the Eye

VIDEO: The People of the Eye: Deaf ethnicity and ancestry in American Sign Language.



Are Deaf people who sign American Sign Language (ASL) an ethnic group? Harlan Lane's latest book, The People of the Eye, compares the values, customs and social organization of the Deaf World to those in ethnic groups.



The People of the Eye also describes founding families of the Deaf World in the US. It traces Deaf ancestry back hundreds of years.



It shows that Deaf people preferred to marry other Deaf people, which led to the creation of Deaf clans.





Nowadays most ASL signers are born into the Deaf World, and many are kin. The People of the Eye tells how Deaf people (and hearing people, too) lived in early America.



For readers curious about their own ancestry in relation to the Deaf World, there are family trees in the book and an associated website presents pedigrees for over two hundred Deaf families extending as many as three hundred years. The book contains an every-name index to the pedigrees.



The authors are: Harlan Lane (H), Richard Pillard (H) and Ulf Hedberg (D).



For more information:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-People-of-the-Eye-Deaf-Ethnicity-and-Ancestry/150748828318167



To get the book from Oxford University Press:

http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Sociology/IndividualinSociety/%7E%7E/dmlldz11c2EmY2k9OTc4MDE5OTc1OTI5Mw==



To get the book from Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=hedberg+lane+pillard&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Ahedberg+lane+pillard&ajr=0

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Deaf Czechs On The Guinness Book of Records

VIDEO: The Guinness Book of Records for the large group people wears white gloves by the Czech Deaf community.



PRAGUE, Czech Republic - The Czech Deaf community wearing white gloves for the International Day of the Deaf 2011 Event, which guinness book of records by gloves for the large group people to wear white gloves.





Congratulations to Deaf Community of the Czech Republic!