Praise

“Although Terry Galloway confesses a fondness for crappy memoirs, her own MEAN Little deaf Queer is anything but. It is funny, poignant, raw, uplifting, and exuberant. It is my new favorite book, and after you read it, it will be yours, too.”

—Ann Hood, author of The Knitting Circle

“You don´t have to be mean, little, deaf, or queer to take heart from this miraculously unsentimental, deliriously funny, refreshingly spite-free, joyously weirdo-embracing memoir. All you have to be is human. Like Augusten Burroughs, Frank McCourt, and Mary Karr, Terry Galloway has written a memoir that transcends its hilarious particularities to achieve the universality of true art.”

—Sarah Bird, author of How Perfect is That and The Mommy Club

“This is not your mother´s triumph-of-the-human-spirit memoir. Yes, Terry Galloway is resilient. But she´s also caustic, depraved, utterly disinhibited, and somehow sweetly bubbly, a beguiling raconteuse who periodically leaps onto the dinner table and stabs you with her fork. Her story will fascinate, it will hurt, and you will like it.”

—Alison Bechdel, cartoonist Dykes to Watch Out For; Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

“Terry Galloway has written a gripping memoir—at times harrowing, at times starkly moving—that chronicles a life beset by two enormous challenges: growing up gay in a very red State, and growing up deaf. Lesser mortals would fold, but Galloway navigates the highs and lows of her life with grace, insight, and unflinching candor. My hat´s off to her as an author, and as a fellow human being.”

—Doug Wright, author of Academy Award Nominated film Quills and the Pulitzer Prize winning play, I Am My Own Wife

“Terry Galloway has been cast by society as an outsider for most of her life, both in her queerness and her deafness, and I am reminded, reading her brilliant memoir, Mean Little deaf Queer, that most good writers create from an outsider position, a place of inner isolation and silent engagement with the deep issues of life. Terry Galloway has suffered in her life, but with great bravery, and she is indeed a very good writer who uses her lifelong separateness to reveal truths about the human heart that apply to us all.”

—Robert Olen Butler, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain.

“This is a damn fine piece of work which is unbelievably powerful. This story is true and passionate and fearless and funny as hell when it is not heartbreaking. I expect this book to charm the hell out of great numbers of people, piss off a few, and give hope to many more...”

—Dorothy Allison.

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