The Hearing Test by Eliza Barry Callahan Groundswell Speaker 2024 from Jaws to Shark Week

from Jaws to Shark Week

and a meditation on place

A New York Times bestseller

and the scars of undeclared love

he shows how the film represents a melding of cinema and video games (the greatest commercial threat to have faced Hollywood since the advent of television) and achieves a hybrid kind of immersive entertainment

The Hearing Test by Eliza Barry Callahan Groundswell Speaker 2024 from Jaws to Shark WeekA young woman reorients her relationship to the world in the wake of sudden deafness in this mesmerizing debut novel for readers of Rachel Cusk, Clarice Lispector, and Fleur JaeggyWhen the narrator of The Hearing Test, an artist in her late twenties, awakens one morning to a deep drone in her right ear, she is diagnosed with Sudden Deafness, but is offered no explanation for its cause. As the spectre of total deafness looms, she keeps a record of her