Nineteen, and the only deaf girl in her college class, she has, she thinks, finally found her place in the world. On Friday afternoons she grabs her bag, slips into a pair of flip flops, and walks twelve blocks to the campus movie theater. She walks up to the touch-screen ticket teller and keys [...]

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“My life is like the space shuttle exploding,” my friend Harriet says into the phone and takes a deep breath. “While it’s in mid-orbit, and a chunk falls off and lands in someone’s back yard and catches fire and the whole block burns down.”
Harriet and I have been friends since we were twelve. She [...]

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