But her older siblings have as much to learn about deafness and hearing losses as those who read El Deafo. El Deafo’s self-confidence helps Cece imagine how she might respond each time she feels overwhelmed by her disability.Ĭece is lucky to have loving parents who never stop paying attention. Cece’s imaginative superhero, El Deafo, helps her cope with the loneliness she experiences, and with how her hearing loss affects her ability to find friends in a world where she believes she never quite fits. In the author’s own words: “ El Deafo is a graphic novel based on my childhood experiences with hearing loss and hearing aids.”Ĭece is four years old when she contracts meningitis, which results in a profound hearing loss. Is this book a novel or a memoir? It is both. The little girl’s name in El Deafo is Cece Bell, just like the author’s. Well, usually little girls can’t fly, and she is wearing a cape, so the logical conclusion is that she must be a SUPERHERO! Calling a superhero El Deafo seems cruel until we read the book. Maybe that plug should be inside the other ear. Two wires are coming out of the package: one wire appears to be attached to one of the girl’s ears, the other wire, floating behind the girl, spells out the words El Deafo, and, if we look more closely, at the end of that wire is something that looks like a plug. A girl wearing some sort of small package hanging from her chest. What do we see on the cover? A girl flying. El Deafo – Cece Bell’s superhero, airborne with a red cape and, do our eyes deceive us, wearing a hearing aid? This is a graphic novel to make a reader soar.Įl Deafo, as any reader can tell from its cover, is a graphic novel.
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