"Flying with a Broken Wing," a novel to keep you from falling [Eng/Esp]

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I had to write this review because Miriam Garlo's book left me with an uncomfortable feeling that will not leave me. I have spent days going through classics of literature, and two days ago I came across this novel that brings a sensation that appears when something forces you to look directly at a reality you normally overlook without realizing it.

The first thing that caught my attention was the honesty of the proposal, because Miriam Garlo does not write from the distance of someone who observes; she writes from within, from the depths of an experience she knows only too well. The novel tells the story of Sakia, a girl who is born hearing but loses her hearing at the age of seven and grows up educated as if she were hearing, with lip reading as her only tool to survive in a world that is not made for her. I first came across that phrase that appears in the synopsis, "No one pronounced the words deaf or deafness," and it stayed with me from the first moment, because that is what the book is about, about invisibility, about the effort to appear normal when the reality is that you are exhausted from pretending.


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What I liked most is that there is no gratuitous dramatism, because Garlo could have written a tearful story about loss and overcoming, but she does not do so; instead she does something much more interesting, which is to show the daily wear and tear, the fatigue of having to read lips in a group conversation and the anxiety of anticipating contexts so as not to be left out. That is the true weight of the story, and not deafness itself but the constant effort to fit into a world that does not even realize it is leaving you out.

There is something that seemed especially revealing to me, and that is the role of art. Sakia finds in Fine Arts, in performance, in photography and in art therapy a space where the body stops being an obstacle and begins to be a language. That seemed beautiful to me and very coherent with the author's own trajectory, since she has a doctorate in Fine Arts and has worked with art therapy, so this is not a literary resource but a truth that runs through the book from beginning to end.


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I was also touched by the way it deals with family and affective relationships. There is love in the novel, but a love that does not always know how to accompany. Sakia's family loves her, but that does not prevent misunderstandings, cracks and the need to find new ways of being together, and that seemed very honest to me, because love is not enough if there is no shared adaptation, and the book is not afraid to say so.

There is an aspect I want to mention before finishing, because it seems important to me. The novel was born from the hundreds of messages she received after the premiere of "Sorda," mainly from women between 40 and 60 years old who were losing their hearing and did not know where to turn and felt alone and disoriented, and that makes me understand why the book has that tone of accompaniment and not of exceptional story.


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Regarding sign language, it seemed significant to me that Sakia does not discover it until adulthood. The author did not learn Spanish Sign Language until she was 30, and that means she spent more than two decades surviving without a language that belonged to her, without a community that named her.

In short, Flying with a Broken Wing is not a book that is read quickly. It has made me more aware of something I take for granted every day, which is the ease with which I communicate and the comfort of a world that speaks my language.

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โœจ ๐‘ป๐’‰๐’‚๐’๐’Œ๐’” ๐’‡๐’๐’“ ๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’…๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ! โœจ
๐‘ฐ๐’‡ ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’…๐’๐’โ€™๐’• ๐’Œ๐’๐’๐’˜ ๐’Ž๐’† ๐’š๐’†๐’•, ๐‘ฐโ€™๐’Ž ๐’‚ ๐‘ช๐’–๐’ƒ๐’‚๐’ ๐’๐’†๐’–๐’“๐’๐’๐’๐’ˆ๐’Š๐’”๐’• ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’˜๐’“๐’Š๐’•๐’†๐’“, ๐’‚ ๐’Ž๐’๐’•๐’‰๐’†๐’“, ๐’‚ ๐’˜๐’๐’Ž๐’‚๐’, ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’‚ ๐’…๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’Ž๐’†๐’“ ๐’˜๐’‰๐’โ€™๐’” ๐’‡๐’๐’–๐’๐’… ๐’Š๐’ ๐‘ฏ๐’Š๐’—๐’† ๐’‚ ๐’ƒ๐’†๐’‚๐’–๐’•๐’Š๐’‡๐’–๐’ ๐’”๐’‘๐’‚๐’„๐’† ๐’•๐’ ๐’”๐’๐’‚๐’“.
๐‘จ๐’๐’ ๐’•๐’†๐’™๐’• ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’Š๐’Ž๐’‚๐’ˆ๐’†๐’” ๐’‚๐’“๐’† ๐’Ž๐’š ๐’๐’“๐’Š๐’ˆ๐’Š๐’๐’‚๐’ ๐’„๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’๐’”, 100% ๐’‰๐’–๐’Ž๐’‚๐’-๐’Ž๐’‚๐’…๐’† (๐’๐’ ๐‘จ๐‘ฐ).
๐‘ฉ๐’‚๐’๐’๐’†๐’“ ๐’…๐’†๐’”๐’Š๐’ˆ๐’๐’†๐’… ๐’ƒ๐’š ๐‘ณ๐’–๐’Ž๐’Š๐’Š.
๐‘ณ๐’๐’—๐’†๐’… ๐’•๐’‰๐’Š๐’” ๐’‘๐’๐’”๐’•? ๐‘ผ๐’‘๐’—๐’๐’•๐’†, ๐’„๐’๐’Ž๐’Ž๐’†๐’๐’•, ๐’๐’“ ๐’“๐’†๐’ƒ๐’๐’๐’ˆ ๐’•๐’ ๐’”๐’‘๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’… ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’˜๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ๐’” ๐’๐’‡ ๐’„๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’•๐’Š๐’—๐’Š๐’•๐’š! ๐Ÿ’›

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"Volar con un ala rota", una novela para no caer

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Tenรญa que escribir esta reseรฑa porque el libro de Miriam Garlo me ha dejado una sensaciรณn incรณmoda que no me abandona. Dรญas llevo recorriendo clรกsicos de la literatura y hace dos dรญas me encuentro con esta novela que trae una sensaciรณn que aparece cuando algo te obliga a mirar de frente una realidad que normalmente pasas por alto sin darte cuenta.

Lo primero que me llamรณ la atenciรณn fue la honestidad de la propuesta, pues Miriam Garlo no escribe desde la distancia de quien observa, escribe desde dentro, desde las entraรฑas de una experiencia que conoce de sobra. La novela cuenta la historia de Sakia, una niรฑa que nace oyente pero pierde la audiciรณn a los siete aรฑos y crece educada como si fuera oyente, con la lectura de labios como รบnica herramienta para sobrevivir en un mundo que no estรก hecho para ella. Me tropecรฉ primero con esa frase que aparece en la sinopsis, "Nadie pronunciรณ las palabras sorda ni sordera", y se me quedรณ clavada desde el primer momento, porque de eso va el libro, de la invisibilidad, del esfuerzo de parecer normal cuando la realidad es que estรกs agotada de fingir.


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Lo que mรกs me ha gustado es que no hay dramatismo gratuito, pues Garlo podrรญa haber escrito un relato lacrimรณgeno sobre la pรฉrdida y la superaciรณn, pero no lo hace; sin embargo, hace algo mucho mรกs interesante, que es mostrar el desgaste cotidiano, la fatiga de tener que leer labios en una conversaciรณn de grupo y la ansiedad de anticipar contextos para no quedarse fuera. Ese es el verdadero peso de la historia, y no la sordera en sรญ, sino el esfuerzo constante de encajar en un mundo que ni siquiera se da cuenta de que te estรก dejando fuera.

Hay algo que me resultรณ especialmente revelador, y es el papel del arte. Sakia encuentra en las Bellas Artes, en la performance, en la fotografรญa y en la arteterapia un espacio donde el cuerpo deja de ser un obstรกculo y empieza a ser un lenguaje. Eso me pareciรณ precioso y muy coherente con la propia trayectoria de la autora, que es doctora en Bellas Artes y ha trabajado con arteterapia, por lo que esto no es un recurso literario, sino una verdad que atraviesa el libro de principio a fin.


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Tambiรฉn me tocรณ la manera en que trata las relaciones familiares y afectivas. Hay amor en la novela, pero un amor que no siempre sabe acompaรฑar. La familia de Sakia la quiere, pero eso no evita los malentendidos, las grietas y la necesidad de encontrar nuevas formas de estar juntos, y eso me pareciรณ muy honesto, porque el amor no basta si no hay adaptaciรณn compartida, y el libro no tiene miedo de decirlo.

Hay un aspecto que quiero mencionar antes de terminar, porque me parece importante. La novela nace de los cientos de mensajes que recibiรณ tras el estreno de "Sorda", principalmente de mujeres de entre 40 y 60 aรฑos que estaban perdiendo audiciรณn y no sabรญan dรณnde acudir, y se sentรญan solas y desorientadas, y eso me hace entender por quรฉ el libro tiene ese tono de acompaรฑamiento y no de relato de excepciรณn.


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Sobre la lengua de signos, me pareciรณ significativo que Sakia no la descubra hasta la edad adulta. La autora no aprendiรณ Lengua de Signos Espaรฑola hasta los 30 aรฑos, y eso significa que pasรณ mรกs de dos dรฉcadas sobreviviendo sin una lengua que le perteneciera, sin una comunidad que la nombrara.

En definitiva, Volar con un ala rota no es un libro que se lea rรกpido. Me ha hecho mรกs consciente de algo que doy por sentado todos los dรญas, que es la facilidad con la que me comunico y la comodidad de un mundo que habla mi idioma.

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โœจ ยก๐‘ฎ๐’“๐’‚๐’„๐’Š๐’‚๐’” ๐’‘๐’๐’“ ๐’๐’†๐’†๐’“! โœจ
๐‘บ๐’Š ๐’‚รบ๐’ ๐’๐’ ๐’Ž๐’† ๐’„๐’๐’๐’๐’„๐’†๐’”: ๐’”๐’๐’š ๐’๐’†๐’–๐’“รณ๐’๐’๐’ˆ๐’‚ ๐’š ๐’†๐’”๐’„๐’“๐’Š๐’•๐’๐’“๐’‚ ๐’„๐’–๐’ƒ๐’‚๐’๐’‚, ๐’Ž๐’‚๐’…๐’“๐’†, ๐’Ž๐’–๐’‹๐’†๐’“ ๐’š ๐’”๐’รฑ๐’‚๐’…๐’๐’“๐’‚ ๐’’๐’–๐’† ๐’†๐’๐’„๐’๐’๐’•๐’“รณ ๐’†๐’ ๐‘ฏ๐’Š๐’—๐’† ๐’–๐’ ๐’‰๐’†๐’“๐’Ž๐’๐’”๐’ ๐’†๐’”๐’‘๐’‚๐’„๐’Š๐’ ๐’‘๐’‚๐’“๐’‚ ๐’—๐’๐’๐’‚๐’“.
๐‘ฌ๐’ ๐’•๐’†๐’™๐’•๐’ ๐’š ๐’๐’‚๐’” ๐’Š๐’Žรก๐’ˆ๐’†๐’๐’†๐’” ๐’”๐’๐’ ๐’…๐’† ๐’Ž๐’Š ๐’‚๐’–๐’•๐’๐’“รญ๐’‚, 100% ๐’‰๐’–๐’Ž๐’‚๐’๐’๐’” (๐’”๐’Š๐’ ๐‘ฐ๐‘จ).
๐‘ฉ๐’‚๐’๐’๐’†๐’“ ๐’…๐’Š๐’”๐’†รฑ๐’‚๐’…๐’ ๐’‘๐’๐’“ ๐‘ณ๐’–๐’Ž๐’Š๐’Š.
ยฟ๐‘ป๐’† ๐’ˆ๐’–๐’”๐’•รณ ๐’†๐’”๐’•๐’‚ ๐’‘๐’–๐’ƒ๐’๐’Š๐’„๐’‚๐’„๐’Šรณ๐’? ๐‘ฝ๐’๐’•๐’‚, ๐’„๐’๐’Ž๐’†๐’๐’•๐’‚ ๐’ ๐’“๐’†๐’ƒ๐’๐’๐’ˆ๐’–๐’†๐’‚ ๐’‘๐’‚๐’“๐’‚ ๐’‚๐’š๐’–๐’…๐’‚๐’“ ๐’‚ ๐’…๐’†๐’”๐’‘๐’๐’†๐’ˆ๐’‚๐’“ ๐’†๐’”๐’•๐’‚๐’” ๐’‚๐’๐’‚๐’”. ๐Ÿ’›

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