Her drab style contrasted with the gaudy colors and big hair of the 1980s.
Her porcelain face, brown eyes, and high cheekbones gave her face a long-distance presence, yet her elegance was neutralized by a brown dress and a perm. Umbrellas and overcoats dripped water onto the white tile floor.Ī black-haired woman sat under the clock, her back to the wall, scanning the crowd with radar eyes. I walked into a roar of conversation, bought sushi, and shuffled through the lunchtime chaos of the Pacific Centre Food Court, looking for a seat. There are other books about discovering schizophrenia in the family and about deaf woman-hearing man relationships, but none that tells the true story of a woman who struggled with both. The author learns what it means to be deaf, what it means to struggle with mental health, and what it means to love such a woman unconditionally-the ecstasy and the agony.
They encounter one obstacle after another while building their life together as Pearl’s perception of reality-and, crucially, their perception of each other-begins to change. Pearl and the author marry and build their dream home and hobby farm. We follow their encounters through actual notes written before Derrick learns sign language we go on their motorcycle ride to Mexico and Guatemala we watch as the happy couple moves to Bowen Island, a British Columbia community with just three paved roads. With pathos and nostalgia, the author recounts his roller-coaster ride with Pearl, a vivacious deaf maverick, who, unknown to him, had paranoid schizophrenia.
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