Matt Hay

Soundtrack of Silence (eBook, ePUB)

Love, Loss, and a Playlist for Life

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An inspiring memoir of a young man who discovered he was going completely deaf just at the moment he'd fallen in love for the first time.

As a child, Matt Hay didn't know his hearing wasn't the way everyone else processed sound-because of the workarounds he did to ¿t in, even the school nurse didn't catch his condition at the annual hearing and vision checks. But by the time he was a prospective college student and couldn't pass the entrance requirements for West Point, Hay's condition, generated by a tumor, was unavoidable: his hearing was going, and fast.

A personal soundtrack was Hay's determined compensation for his condition. As a typical Midwestern kid growing up in the 1980s whose life events were pegged to pop music, Hay planned to commit his favorite songs to memory. He prepared a mental playlist of the bands he loved and created a way to tap into his most resonant memories. And the track he needed to cement most clearly? The one he and his new girlfriend, Nora-the love of his life-listened to in the car on their ¿rst date.

Made vivid with references to instantly recognizable songs-from the Eagles to Elton John, Bob Marley to Bing Crosby, U2 to Peter Frampton-Soundtrack of Silence asks readers to run the soundtrack of their own lives through their minds. It's an involving memoir of loss and disability, and, ultimately, a both unique and universal love story.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: St. Martin's Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781250280237
• Artikelnr.: 67756233

Autorenporträt

MATT HAY is the U.S. Director of Advocacy for rare diseases at a biopharmaceutical company. He has served on the national board of directors for the Children¿s Tumor Foundation, as a certi¿ed Cochlear Corporation patient advocate, and as a development adviser for the St. Joseph Institute for the Deaf. He lives in Westfield, Indiana, with his wife/hero of more than twenty years and their three teenage children.