The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa

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The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa

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63 minutes

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Mar 12, 2008

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Seeking a place where his deafness would be irrelevant, Josh Swiller volunteered for the Peace Corps and spent two years in a remote and impoverished village in Zambia. His hilarious and harrowing memoir recounts what he found there.

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Mar 12, 2008

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The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa

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