Soundtrack of Silence by Matt Hay - ISBN: 9781250280220
Hardcover
Deafness threatens love: music becomes the soundtrack to remember everything.

Soundtrack of Silence

Love, Loss, and a Playlist for Life

  • Hardcover

    272 pages

  • Release Date

    9 July 2024

Summary

An inspiring memoir of a young man who discovered he was going completely deaf just at the moment he’d fallen in love for the first time.

As a child, Matt Hay didn’t know his hearing wasn’t the way everyone else processed sound—because of the workarounds he did to fit in, even the school nurse didn’t catch his condition at the annual hearing and vision checks. But by the time he was a prospective college student and couldn’t pass the entrance requirements for West Point, Hay’s conditi…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781250280220
ISBN-10:1250280222
Author:Matt Hay
Publisher:St Martin's Press
Imprint:St Martin's Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:272
Release Date:9 July 2024
Weight:372g
Dimensions:220mm x 148mm x 31mm
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Critics Review

”[P]oignant… [Hay’s] optimism in the face of adversity is stirring. This moving memoir makes magic out of facing the music.” - Publishers Weekly “What’s a music lover to do when the music stops? …A medical odyssey told sensitively.” -Kirkus

About The Author

Matt Hay

Matt Hay was born and raised in Indiana. He holds a BS and MBA from the Indiana University School of Business. Throughout Matt’s journey of hearing loss and recovery he held a full-time roll in media sales, but his heart remained in non-profit work within the hard of hearing community. Matt has served on the national Board of Directors for the Children’s Tumor Foundation, is a Certified Cochlear Corp Advocate, a development adviser for the St. Joseph Institute for the Deaf and public speaker at various hearing loss related events. Somewhere in there he did an Ironman Triathlon. He now serves as the U.S. Director of Advocacy for Neurofibromatosis at Alexion Pharmaceuticals. He currently lives in Westfield, IN with his wife/hero of 17 years and three teenage children and spends each day trying to focus on the things he can do, not the things he cannot.

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