Leah Hager Cohen
Author
Language
English
Description
Is keeping a secret from a spouse always an act of infidelity? And what cost does such a secret exact on a family? The Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven hours after his birth. Without words to express their grief, the parents, John and Ricky, try to return to their previous lives. Struggling to regain a semblance of normalcy for themselves and for their two older children, they find themselves pretending not only that...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
"A literary novel about adult siblings, a sister and her autistic brother, and what happens when the brother is accused of the murder of a local boy - who is truly responsible, and could it have been avoided if the brother had been treated differently by his parents, by his sister, by society?"--
Author
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
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Description
A “remarkable and insightful” look inside a New York City school for the deaf, blending memoir and history (The New York Times Book Review).
Leah Hager Cohen is part of the hearing world, but grew up among the deaf community. Her Russian-born grandfather had been deaf—a fact hidden by his parents as they took him through Ellis Island—and her father served as superintendent at the Lexington School...
Leah Hager Cohen is part of the hearing world, but grew up among the deaf community. Her Russian-born grandfather had been deaf—a fact hidden by his parents as they took him through Ellis Island—and her father served as superintendent at the Lexington School...
Author
Language
English
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Description
In a tight, enlightening narrative, Leah Hager Cohen explores why, so often, we attempt to hide our ignorance, and why, in so many different areas, we would be better off coming clean. Weaving entertaining, anecdotal reporting with eye-opening research, she considers both the ramifications of and alternatives to this ubiquitous habit in arenas as varied as education, finance, medicine, politics, warfare, trial courts, and climate change. But it's...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"A wise and joyful novel, Strangers and Cousins is about what happens when an already sprawling family hosts an even larger and more chaotic wedding: a compassionate and entertaining story about family, culture, memory, community, and the permeable lines that define one's tribal identity"--
Bennie and Walter are preparing to host the wedding of their eldest daughter, Clem, to her college girlfriend. But Clem has her own agenda. The family is inundated...
6) House lights
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A poignant novel about how secrets threaten the stability of a family. Late in her twentieth year, Beatrice mails a letter on the sly, sparking events that will change her life forever. The addressee is her grandmother, a legendary stage actress long estranged from her daughter, Bea's mother. Though Bea wants to become an actress herself, it is the desire to understand the old family rift that drives her to work her way into her grandmother's graces....
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Orphaned sisters Mole, 11, and Tilly, 12, are bonded by the heroic death of their parents who were drowned trying to save others, a heroism of their own invention as the adults are not talking. When Tilly loosens the bond by developing an interest in a boy, Mole decides to pay her back by unearthing the truth about their parents. A first novel.
9) Glass, paper, beans: the intimate life of ordinary things and other ruminations in the Someday Cafe
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
