May book club will be meeting on the different day of Thursday, May 29th (still at our usual time of 5pm Western/ 7pm Central/ 8pm Eastern Time). We will be discussing the memoir “Soundtrack of Silence: love, loss, and a playlist for life.” By Matt Hay with Steve Eubanks. Author Matt Hay will be joining us on Zoom. All are welcome. Book clubs have captions. To receive a Zoom link for the meeting, please REGISTER HERE. Please read below for a brief description of the book and information about Matt Hay.

• Synopsis: “As a child, Matt Hay didn’t know his hearing wasn’t the way everyone else processed sound-and like a lot of kids who do workarounds to fit in… But as a prospective college student who couldn’t pass the entrance requirements for West Point, Hay’s condition, generated by a tumor, was unavoidable: his hearing was going, and fast. Soundtrack of Silence was his determined compensation for his condition: a typical Midwestern kid growing up in the 1980s, whose life events were pegged to pop music, Hay planned to commit his favorite songs to memory…”
• Neurofibromatosis Type 2 description on Johns Hopkins website. (The condition Hay has that affected his hearing.)
• Author website: https://hearmatthay.com/
• NPR interview with Matt Hay from 2017
• Hearing Wellness Podcast Episode
• Matt Hay’s TEDx Talk: “What losing (and regaining) my hearing taught me about resilience”
• Matt was the cover story of the September 2020 issue of HLAA’s Hearing Life magazine. Read the article here.
• Article by Matt Hay on Neurofibromatosis Type 2

Book Club will continue to meet (on Zoom) through the summer as we are a year round group. As always, contact Laura with questions on this and any future book clubs, social@hlaatc.org