{"product_id":"aquarium-9781250829542","title":"Aquarium","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSly, surprising, and as fierce as its protagonists, Yaara Shehori's \u003ci\u003eAquarium\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning debut that interrogates the practice of storytelling--and storyhearing.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSisters Lili and Dori Ackerman are deaf. Their parents--beautiful, despondent Anna; fearsome and admired Alex--are deaf, too. Alex, a scrap-metal collector and sometime prophet, opposes any attempt to integrate with the hearing; to escape their destructive influence, the girls are educated at home. Deafness is no disability, their father says, but an alternative way of life, preferable by far to that of the strident, hypocritical hearing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLiving in a universe of their own creation, feared by and disdainful of the other children on their block, Lili and Dori grow up semi-feral. Lili writes down everything that happens--just the facts. And Dori, the reader, follows her older sister wherever she goes. United against a hostile and alien world, the girls and their parents watch the hearing like they would fish in an aquarium. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut when the hearing intrude and a devastating secret is revealed, the cracks that begin to form in the sisters' world will have consequences that span the rest of their lives. Separated from the family that ingrained in them a sense of uniqueness and alienation, Lili and Dori must relearn how to live, and how to tell their own stories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/12\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250829542\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.80d","brand":"Yaara Shehori","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42021868667061,"sku":"9781250829542","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_445e6ea0-b046-49f7-990d-2e1e5b59ba82.jpg?v=1649300727","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/aquarium-9781250829542","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}