Description: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―and like a lot of kids who do workarounds to fit in, even the school nurse didn’t catch his condition at the annual hearing and vision checks. But as a prospective college student who couldn’t pass the entrance requirements for West Point, Hay’s condition, generated by a tumor, was his hearing was going, and fast.Soundtrack of Silence was his determined compensation for his 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, a mental playbook not only of the bands he loved, but a way to tap 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 first 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Soundtrack of Silence: Love, Loss, and a Playlist for Life. To get started finding Soundtrack of Silence: Love, Loss, and a Playlist for Life, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Soundtrack of Silence: Love, Loss, and a Playlist for Life
Description: 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―and like a lot of kids who do workarounds to fit in, even the school nurse didn’t catch his condition at the annual hearing and vision checks. But as a prospective college student who couldn’t pass the entrance requirements for West Point, Hay’s condition, generated by a tumor, was his hearing was going, and fast.Soundtrack of Silence was his determined compensation for his 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, a mental playbook not only of the bands he loved, but a way to tap 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 first 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Soundtrack of Silence: Love, Loss, and a Playlist for Life. To get started finding Soundtrack of Silence: Love, Loss, and a Playlist for Life, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.