![]() ![]() The book concludes with author notes and several photographs. Readers are in for a deeply personal and sometimes uncomfortable look at a disaster whose ramifications are still being felt. The boy's shiny cornet, saved from floodwaters, figures prominently in the family's experience at the chaotic stadium, giving comfort and continuity. ![]() But I couldn't help looking." The dark-hued, realistic illustrations create a somber mood that refuses to lift even when the family finally reaches the Superdome. Bootman's dramatic oil paintings and the boy's first-person narration provide realistic immediacy as the boy's family makes its way through their flooded neighborhood on "a piece of someone's porch that was floating by." Uhlberg hints at the death toll: "y broom hit a pile of clothes. He goes to bed during a fierce storm and awakens to encroaching water. 3 2009 by Myron Uhlberg (Author) 106 ratings See all formats and editions Hardcover 71.40 18 Used from 19.57 6 New from 69. Ten-year-old Louis Daniel is African-American and a horn player like his idol, Louis Armstrong. Myron Uhlberg Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love Hardcover Feb. ![]() The pair behind Dad, Jackie, and Me turn their attention to the harrowing events of Hurricane Katrina as seen through the eyes of a fictional child. Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love by Myron Uhlberg DB 68756, BR 18281, Available as BARD Download Children’s book author Uhlberg describes his childhood in 1930s and 1940s Brooklyn with two Deaf parents and a hearing but epileptic younger brother. ![]()
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