Silence

About this book

Silence follows a woman who can scarcely explain the profound transformation imposed on her by years of brutality, domination, and crime. Having endured similarly harsh circumstances in two different stages of her life, she resolves that the third will not be governed by a publicly confessed past. Her decision to continue is neither simple erasure nor easy redemption: even her moments of joy have arrived carrying the shape of disaster. The novel traces a difficult will to survive when memory, identity, and self-judgment have all been wounded.