Books

Whispers Through the Trees is about a personal story growing up Deaf in a hearing world, navigating chronic illness, and learning to trust the wisdom of my own body. It’s about remembering what I learned through the wilderness of trees into sensitivity, healing, and the slow return to myself.

A quiet, intimate story about love, loss, loneliness, and the ways grief changes shape over time. Through Mara’s journey, The Shape of Grief explores what it means to live with absence while slowly discovering that belonging may still be possible.

Malia Johnson is adopted and, at six months of age, diagnosed as deaf. Her horrified mother desperately tries to raise her as hearing, which confuses young Malia. Her silent world is wrought with teasing from her peers and harsh discipline from her mother as she forces her to learn lip reading and speech six hours a day, seven days a week....

Mara has been deaf since childhood, but her world has never been silent. Through touch, vibration, light, and human connection, she experiences life in ways many people never stop to consider.

When she is invited to create a featured art installation for a winter exhibit themed, Unspoken, Mara sets out to challenge the assumptions others have...