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"These eleven short stories 'all have Ruth Zimmer as the protagonist, the first ten being episodes of her childhood in Manhattan -- interpreting forher deaf-mute parents whose three children have normal hearing and speech ... In the last story Ruth, …

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"These eleven short stories 'all have Ruth Zimmer as the protagonist, the first ten being episodes of her childhood in Manhattan -- interpreting forher deaf-mute parents whose three children have normal hearing and speech ... In the last story Ruth, now living on the West Coast, returns to New York ... and discovers that {her father} has been hoarding money by denying his wife and children an easier existence." Antioch Rev.

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