Fallen on Deaf Ears

Join Maggie in her journey from a brilliant Teacher, turned Wife, Daughter in law, Sister in law Mother and friend, as she 'navigates' through communication and cultural barriers, the only way she knows how? Coping stragergies from infancy to adulthood. Her journey had started long before she set off on that plane to a foreign land. Maggie shares her stragergies openly, with honesty and acceptance. She had learned long ago just how exhausting it was to 'explain' or 'defend' her Deafness. She found love, but cultural and family pressures buried this. Yet she 'fell' into a pattern of Turkish life and grew to respect and embrace their traditions. Sadly in my opinion, it was not reciprocated. However, Maggies easy going, approachable persona, won over some members of her family, forming life long friendships. Maggie is a fighter. She shouldn't of had to fight and hide her Deafness in a country where women 'Walked behind' a man and where her Deafness was a secret or something to be made to feel ashamed of. A piece of Maggies heart, still lies in Mersin.

I thoroughly recommend this book about how being deaf can alter people’s perceptions of who you are and what you can achieve. Struggling to fit into a culture very different to her own, Maggie tells the story of the ups and downs of her life in Turkey and how, through her own strength of character , she was able to finally be herself and be proud of the woman she is .

Wow - this is a really good informative read. How so different life was for her in a different culture, where she had to learn the language without hearing it & on top of that live a life with family that did not know about her impairment. Powerful stuff, definitely worth a read

This book is about a woman who overcame struggles being married in a foreign country with a disability and how this was not recognised in certain cultures. A really interesting read on how the writer learned to hide her disability just to keep the family happy. Well worth a read.