Layla AlAmmar – Silence Is a Sense (retail) (epub)
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Name: Layla AlAmmar – Silence Is a Sense (retail) (epub)
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Title: Silence Is a Sense
Author: Layla AlAmmar
Language: English
Year: 2019
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Publisher: Algonquin Books
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“Lyrical, moving, and revealing."
-Tracy Chevalier, bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring
A transfixing and beautifully rendered novel about a refugee’s escape from civil war-and the healing power of community.
A young woman sits in her apartment, watching the small daily dramas of her neighbors across the way. She is an outsider, a mute voyeur, safe behind her windows, and she sees it all-the sex, the fights, the happy and unhappy families. Journeying from her war-torn Syrian homeland to this unnamed British city has traumatized her into silence, and her only connection to the world is the column she writes for a magazine under the pseudonym “the Voiceless,” where she tries to explain the refugee experience without sensationalizing it-or revealing anything about herself.
Gradually, though, the boundaries of…
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