Left in The Silence

di Mary Ellen Dube (Autore)

Lynn Marie Brunk (Narratore)

Manning the Gate Publishing LLC, 2026

In the mid-twentieth century, on the dust-worn streets of Ardmore, Oklahoma, lived a vibrant and spirited girl named Mary Ellen. She radiated boundless joy until life took unexpected turns. Her father marched off to World War II on the thunderous trains she adored. Then, at only five or six years old, her hearing began its cruel and relentless fade. The beloved roar and lonely whistles of those trains slowly vanished into a heartbreaking silence. Before reaching adolescence, she learned to rely on lip reading to compensate for the sounds that were being taken from her. In the 1950s, she fell wildly and helplessly in love for the first time. As the silence closed in like a suffocating fog, one desperate question burned in her heart: Would her first love stand by her side? Would her friends remain loyal as the quiet grew more profound? Yet even as sound deserted her and the silence deepened, Mary Ellen refused to surrender. She clung fiercely to her unshakeable faith in God and fought savagely to keep her playful spirit alive. Through loss, loneliness, and relentless struggle, she raised six children with stubborn positivity, pouring her anguish into poetry and never—ever—giving up. Left in The Silence is a raw, gut-wrenching, and triumphant memoir of unimaginable loss and unbreakable hope. It is the unforgettable story of a woman caught between a world that grew cruelly quiet and a heart that refused to stay silent.

• Autore: Mary Ellen Dube
• Narratore: Lynn Marie Brunk
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 09:16:37
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Manning the Gate Publishing LLC
• Lingua: Inglese
• EAN: 9781961773417