Antrobus, Raymond: The Quiet Ear: An Investigation of Missing Sound: A Memoir (HB)

Hogarth Press, hardcover Publication Date: August 19, 2025 Publisher Marketing: "Expansive, generous, and massively tender."--Hanif Abdurraqib, author of There's Always This Year "Beautifully complicates and expands our understanding of what deafness is . . . a book that changed how I will move through the world."--Clint Smith, author of How the Word Is Passed "A spellbinding account of [Antrobus's] youth as a deaf, mixed-race child in East London . . . with lyrical prose, bruising candor, and remarkable tenderness toward his wounded younger self, Antrobus provides an unforgettable account of finding one's voice. It's masterful."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)One of Vulture's Most Anticipated Books of the SummerI live with the aid of deafness. Like poetry, it has given me an art, a history, a culture and a tradition to live through. This book charts that art in the hopes of offering a map, a mirror, a small part of a larger story. Raymond Antrobus was first diagnosed as deaf at th