{"product_id":"the-hearing-test-1","title":"The Hearing Test","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award | Longlisted for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction | A Dakota Johnson x TeaTime Book Club Pick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A writer of unusual talents and profound preoccupations: a literary newcomer to watch.\" \u003c\/b\u003e-- \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA 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 Jaeggy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen the narrator of \u003ci\u003eThe Hearing Test\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 specter of total deafness looms, she keeps a record of her year--a score of estrangement and enchantment, of luck and loneliness, of the chance occurrences to which she becomes attuned--while living alone in a New York City studio apartment with her dog.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough a series of fleeting and often humorous encounters--with neighbors, an ex-lover, doctors, strangers, family members, faraway friends, and with the lives and works of artists, filmmakers, musicians, and philosophers--making meaning becomes a form of consolation and curiosity, a form of survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt once a rumination on silence and a novel on seeing, \u003ci\u003e The Hearing Test\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of vitalizing intellect and playfulness which marks the arrival of a major new literary writer with a rare command of form, compression, and intent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEliza Barry Callahan\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer, filmmaker, and musician from New York, NY. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eBOMB\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003efrieze\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Drift\u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere. She co-wrote the short film \u003ci\u003eBUST\u003c\/i\u003e which premiered at Sundance in 2024. She is a New York Foundation for The Arts Fellow and she teaches at Columbia University. \u003ci\u003eThe Hearing Test\u003c\/i\u003e is her first novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eliza Barry Callahan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49803620122909,"sku":"9781646222704","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9781646222704.jpg?v=1742414529","url":"https:\/\/staging.anovelideaphilly.com\/products\/the-hearing-test-1","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}