How Going Deaf Opened My Eyes

Noel Holston
Nov 3 · 4 min read
Tumble Inn, Powder River, Wyoming

We all know what we’re supposed to do when life gifts us with a basket of tart, yellow citrus fruit, and that’s what I’ve tried to do since my hearing deserted me in 2010: make as much lemonade, in as many variations, as I can concoct.

One of those variations was writing a cathartic book. My memoir, Life After Deaf: My Misadventures in Hearing Loss and Recovery, published by Skyhorse on November 5.

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Noel Holston

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Mississippi native, prize-winning veteran of The Orlando Sentinel, the Minneapolis Star Tribune and Newsday, stand-up storyteller, lives in Athens, Ga.

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