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PRE-SOCIAL HOUR EVENT: But You Look So Normal: Lost and Found in a Hearing World
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Pre-Social Hour Event
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About this event
RSVP: info@ashbyvillage.org or call 510-204-9200
When: First Friday of the month, 3:00 - 4:00 pm
Where: 1821 Catalina Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94707
Open to: Ashby Village members, volunteers and guests
Accessibility: use ramp on San Pedro Avenue and Colusa
But You Look So Normal:
Lost and Found in a Hearing World
At age four, Claudia Marseille was diagnosed with a severe hearing loss. With determination and the help of a primitive analogue hearing aid, she learned to hear, speak and lipread. She was mainstreamed in public schools in Berkeley, CA as her parents thought that would give her as normal a childhood as possible. But she was often lonely and isolated – fitting into neither the hearing world nor Deaf culture. After earning master’s degrees in archaeology and in public policy, and finally an MFA, she developed a career in photography and painting, a profession compatible with a hearing loss. Claudia ran a fine art portrait photography studio for fifteen years before becoming a full-time painter. Since 2001 her paintings have been represented by the Seager Gray gallery in Mill Valley, CA.
Claudia has played classical piano much of her life; in her free time she loves to read, watch movies, travel, spend time with friends, and attend concerts and art exhibits. She and her husband live in Oakland and have one grown daughter.
In this honest, personal memoir, “But You Look So Normal” Claudia describes her complex relationship with her German parents, a troubled psychoanalyst father and Jewish mother, survivor of the Holocaust. Her memoir addresses how she tried to hide her disability, and her various attempts at compensating. She explores her early love relationships, her first marriage, her Jewish identity, and her struggles to find a profession compatible with a severe hearing loss. In an Epilogue she discusses the major technological advances and social and cultural changes that have made her life easier. Her memoir about a life impacted by hearing loss is a story of family, relationship, loss, identity, and healing as she finally found her place in the world and learned to live a rich, fulfilling, and creative life. Her memoir won a Gold Medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards for Best First Book in Non-Fiction, and also a starred review from Library Journal.
You can find out more on Claudia's author website: www.claudiamarseilleauthor.com
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