John Cotter was thirty years old when he first began to notice a ringing in his ears. Soon the ringing became a roar inside his head. Next came partial deafness, then dizziness and vertigo that rendered him unable to walk, work, sleep, or even communicate. What happened next—the search for understanding, and struggle for a new kind of meaning in his life—is the story he tells in his memoir, Losing Music. Oprah Daily said Losing Music, “explodes an individual experience of illness into a cultural and medical reckoning; with a sociologist’s rigor and a poet’s lyricism, Cotter takes readers on an odyssey through the social history of disability, the brutal bureaucracy of the American healthcare system, and the intimate violence of living in a volatile body.” John will read from the book, and talk about living with hearing loss, and answer audience questions.
Location: CASE E422/Chancellor’s Hall/Auditorium, 7 pm
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