Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} A Thousand Voices by Jeri Parker A Thousand Voices by Jeri Parker. A Thousand Voices by Jeri Parker Available in paperback September 5, $ 14.95. A memoir of the remarkable relationship between a young, single woman and the wild, beautiful deaf boy who, for a time, took the place of the son she’d lost, A THOUSAND VOICES is a song of love and grief and a profound meditation on the limits—and the limitlessness—of human language. His name was Carlos. Carlos Louis Salazar. And when his mother had troubles, I more or less stole him. Or that’s what I always said. He was the son I wanted, and I did get him for a while. So begins A THOUSAND VOICES . It traces the grand adventure, the whimsy, the confusion and sorrow of one boy's third of a century, recounted by the woman who teaches him and takes him in. The friendship is filled with equal parts joy and adversity as Carlos, the young, deaf man at its center, struggles to find a purpose and place in the world. But at its deepest level, A THOUSAND VOICES stays a love story about language. The story unfolds against the rich imagery of Utah’s high deserts and snow-swept mountains, the alpine forests of Idaho, and the wide boulevards of Montreal in the last decades of the last century. Jeri meets Carlos in Utah when he is ten and she is twenty-four. They interest each other. He is wild-hearted and free-spirited, traits she applauds in herself and has only slightly subdued. He is a hellion; so was she. There are differences as well, and they point to the underlying themes of the book. He doesn’t know language; she teaches it. He was born deaf; she could always hear. He lives in a low-lying part of town she has never ventured into; she is up in the foothills, across several economic strata. Where his opportunities are circumscribed by ethnic background as well as economic disadvantage, hers are wide open. Their acquaintance becomes an indispensable connection for both of them. She helps him learn to talk. In turn, she finds Carlos has much to teach her, and their communication is marked by a nuance, grace, and richness beyond words. Jeri raises Carlos until he is fourteen when their adventures grow fewer as Carlos moves through his stormy teenage years. In his adolescence, he fathers a child he cannot raise, pursues self-destructive release in drugs, stealing, and fighting. The two weather that bewildering and in some ways devastating time, and Jeri stands by him as friend and guardian when the struggle for his life overtakes everything. A Thousand Voices by Jeri Parker. Winter Beach Press is proud to announce the publication of. Unmoored. Winter Beach Press is looking for those out-of-the-way treasures that might have been passed by. Areas of interest include nonfiction, particularly memoir, and the occasional work of fiction. We're interested in works that are anchored in the natural landscape that bring beauty and intelligence to their subject. Books can be specially ordered by phone or mail: Winter Beach Press 936 East 1700 South Salt Lake City, UT 84105 801-484-7832 800-569-0009 (toll-free) Carving from memory the ground she will stand on, Rennie England returns to the family home in Idaho in time to see her father’s body being carried out his fire-blackened bedroom window. Her journey to discover what happened will take her to his bedroom, to a candle in the room and a key in the lock, to other rooms where people fell in live, where people died. As she asks who was locked in and who was locked out, she hears the voices of her life in a new way—the father who hands his twins, but not by the neck; the grandmother, whose light comes with cinnamon and salt; the lover, who is the one right thing and out of reach even before he is assassinated. Rennie learns what we get to keep and what we don’t get to keep, what we want to know and what we can’t let ourselves know, what we love and what we unwittingly betray. A Thousand Voices by Jeri Parker Available in hardback, $ 16.95. A memoir of the remarkable relationship between a young, single woman and the wild, beautiful deaf boy who, for a time, took the place of the son she’d lost, A THOUSAND VOICES is a song of love and grief and a profound meditation on the limits—and the limitlessness—of human language. His name was Carlos. Carlos Louis Salazar. And when his mother had troubles, I more or less stole him. Or that’s what I always said. He was the son I wanted, and I did get him for a while. So begins A THOUSAND VOICES . It traces the grand adventure, the whimsy, the confusion and sorrow of one boy's third of a century, recounted by the woman who teaches him and takes him in. The friendship is filled with equal parts joy and adversity as Carlos, the young, deaf man at its center, struggles to find a purpose and place in the world. But at its deepest level, A THOUSAND VOICES stays a love story about language. 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A Thousand Voices received awards from The Utah Arts Council and the Henry Forks Foundation in Idaho. Both books received Starred reviews from BlueInk Review. About BlueInk Review. BlueInk Review was founded by Patti Thorn, former books editor of the Rocky Mountain News , and Patricia Moosbrugger, literary agent and subsidiary rights specialist. It offers serious, unbiased reviews of self-published books. Reviews are penned largely by writers drawn from major mainstream publications, such as The New York Times and Washington Post , and editors of respected traditional publishing houses. Select reviews appear in Booklist magazine. Share this: Related. 4 Replies to “NSR Book of the Week: Unmoored by Jeri Parker” Comments are closed. BROWSE TOPIC OR COLUMN. Mirela Roncevic. Mirela Roncevic is Editorial Director of No Shelf Required. She is a professional editor, writer, content developer, and consultant to publishers, libraries, book distributors and library vendors around the world. 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