Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Brandi Rarus’ Finding Zoe: A Deaf Woman’s Story of Identity, Love, and Adoption virtual book tour October 6-17!
Title: Finding Zoe: A Deaf Woman’s Story of Identity, Love, and Adoption
Author: Brandi Rarus
Publisher: BenBella Books
Pages: 320
Genre: Biography/Autobiography/Personal Memoir
Format: Hardcover
In Finding Zoe, Brandi Rarus shares the story of her very personal path of self-discovery and the struggle of being caught between two worlds—the hearing and the Deaf. We travel with her through her mainstreamed younger years and later on to college at The National Technical Institute for the Deaf where she embraces Deaf culture and realizes that being Deaf is not a handicap, but a passport to a whole new and exciting world.
Brandi brings us behind the scenes as she takes on the world advocating for her Deaf Community as Miss Deaf America; meeting and falling in love with Tim, a Gallaudet University student leader who later helped write the landmark Americans with Disability Act on Capitol Hill. The two married and had three hearing boys—the first non-deaf children born in Tim’s family in 125 years, but with all their blessings something was still missing.
With a powerful foreword provided by Marlee Matlin, an Academy Award-winning actress and member of the National Association of the Deaf, Finding Zoe is an inspiring recollection of how two individuals who, already bonded by their diversity, come together as an unbreakable mother-daughter pair to navigate a silent world and shed light the adoption/foster care system.
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- Finding Zoe is available at Amazon.
- Pick up your copy at Barnes & Noble.
- Discuss this book at PUYB Virtual Book Club at Goodreads.
Deaf since age six after contracting spinal meningitis, Brandi Rarus
could speak and read lips, but felt caught between the deaf and hearing
world—fitting into neither. When she realized you don’t need to hear to
live a fulfilled life, she became empowered and was chosen as Miss Deaf
America. From signing the National Anthem at a Chicago Cubs game to
speaking at corporate conferences, Brandi traveled the country speaking
out for deaf children and building awareness of what it means to be
Deaf.She married Tim Rarus, an advocate for Deaf people whose work inspired the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act. Together, they have paved the way to bring new technologies that promote equal access in communication. Brandi and Tim live in Austin, Texas, with their four children: three hearing boys and the youngest, Zoe, a Deaf girl they adopted. Today, Brandi and her family are tirelessly dedicated to ensuring all children find their rightful place in our world.
Her latest book is the biography/autobiography/personal memoir, Finding Zoe: A Deaf Woman’s Story of Identity, Love, and Adoption.
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