Jellyfish Have No Ears Audiobook

Ever since she was a child Louise has been not quite hearing and not quite deafher life with this invisible disability has been one of inbetweenness After an audiology test shows that almost all her hearing is gone her doctor suggests a cochlear implant This irreversible operation would give Louise a new sense of hearingbut it would come at the expense of her natural hearing which has shaped her relationship with the world full of whispers and shadowsHearing for Louise is inseparable from reading other peoples lips Through sight she perceives words and strings them together like pearls to reconstruct a conversation When the string breaks misunderstandings result and eccentric images fill her thoughts As she weighs the prospect of surgery fabulous characters begin to accompany her a damaged soldier from World War I an irritable dog and a whimsical botanist With Jellyfish Have No Ears Adle Rosenfeld shines an extraordinary light on the black hole of losing a sense and on the vibrancy that can arise to fill the voidWill a cochlear implant change the way one unforgettable young woman experiences the world Adle Rosenfelds narrator grapples with this question as she navigates work love and her own unruly imagination In lush startling prose made vivid by Jeffrey Zuckermans translation her agonizing choice becomes relevant to us allNell Freudenberger