The Sound Of Her Voice: My Blind Parents' Story

So much of falling in love is visual. Catching someone's eye. Noticing how they dress and carry themselves. Being captivated by their smile. Feeling that initial sense of physical attraction. But when you are blind, how do you fall in love if it cannot be "at first sight?" By sound, of course.The Sound of Her Voice: My Blind Parents' Story is the inspiring chronicle of a remarkable couple (both blind since childhood) who -- against all odds -- lived full and productive lives. Mario became the first blind graduate of the University of Notre Dame Law School and was later elected Judge of two different county courts in Muncie, Indiana. Jane, who was fiercely independent from a young age, ran the household and raised four sighted children without outside assistance.In this inspirational first-hand account, Jane and Mario's story is told by their youngest child, Mary Pieroni Harper. Using extensive archival material -- including recorded audio and video interviews, and family photos -- Harper offers up a tale both historical and future-facing, helping us understand how the world unfolded for generations past and what is possible for generations to come. With clarity and emotional vulnerability, Harper takes us on an odyssey that extends more than a century -- first putting the reader in the room during her mother's birth, when young parents (Harper's grandparents) were overwhelmed with fear and grief to meet their baby girl whose eyes were bulging with glaucoma. We travel through time during her parents' childhoods and watch them mature and fall in love during their education at the Indiana School for the Blind. And Harper gives us powerful glimpses of her own life -- then and now -- as one of four children who could see her parents but whose parents only knew her by touch and sound.

• | Author: Mary Harper
• | Publisher: Lily Cat Books
• | Publication Date: Sep 16, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 360 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0578381826
• | ISBN-13: 9780578381824