Since she was little, Louise has been not quite hearing and not quite deaf – her life with this invisible disability has been one of in-betweenness. After an audiology test shows that almost all her hearing is gone, her doctor suggests getting a cochlear implant. The technology would give Louise a new sense of hearing – but it would be at the expense of her natural hearing, which, for all its weakness, has shaped her unique relationship with the world.
Ms. Rosenfeld is partially deaf and has found a perceptive translator in Jeffrey Zuckerman ... A note of comic bewilderment recurs throughout Louise’s passage along the broken shore of coherence, and the question is just how far into the tide of static she’ll allow herself to drift.
A strange, haunting story ... A curious, thought-provoking, intensely mind-bending exploration of the loss of a sense and the potential richness as well as struggle of life with an invisible disability. Imaginative and spellbinding, Jellyfish Have No Ears is unforgettable.
