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Charged with the mystery of childhood, with curiosity and daring, confusion and fear, the eleven interrelated stories in "Useful Gifts" explore what Ruthie knows. The youngest child of profoundly deaf parents living in Manhattan in the 1940s and 1950s, Ruthie Zimmer speaks and signs. Interpreting for her parents, she tries to make sense of worlds as close as her family's fourth-floor apartment, as expansive as her rooftop playground and as diverse as the neighborhood below.

The ways of language, its ways, its habits, its humor--as well as the demons that rise within us when we fail to...