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Book Review of Deafening

Deafening
Deafening
Author: Frances Itani
Book Type: Paperback
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This is a tale of love during WWI. Grania lives in a world of silence. Her husband, a young hearing man, leaves Canada for Europe and spends the war as a stretcher bearer enduring chaos, noise and death. Their story is told on the homefront as well as the European front. It is a book written well and with authority, as it is the fictionalized story of the author's deaf grandmother.