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Daughters of Silence : a Novel by Rebecca Fisseha is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Strong female voice, a clear-eyed narrator examining self & family. Ash from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano fills the skies. Flights are grounded throughout Europe. Dessie, a cosmopolitan flight attendant from Canada, finds herself stranded in Addis Ababa -- her birth place. Grieving her mother's recent death, Dessie heads to see her grandfather, the Shaleqa -- compelled as much by duty as her own will. But Dessie's conflicted past stands in her way. Just as the volcano's eruption disordered Dessie's work life, so too does her mother's death cause seismic disruptions in the fine balance of self-deceptions & false histories that uphold her family. As Dessie reacquaints herself with her grandfather's house, familiar yet strangely alien to her diasporic sensibilities, she pieces together the family secrets: the trauma of dictatorship & civil war, the shame of unwed motherhood, the abuse met with silence that gives shape to the mystery of her mother's life. Reminiscent of the deeply immersive writing of Taiye Selasi & Arundhati Roy, Rebecca Fisseha's Daughters of Silence is psychologically astute & buoyed both by metaphor & by the vibrant colours of Ethiopia. It's an impressive debut.°°°

Who reads Daughters of Silence : a Novel?

Author

Rebecca Fisseha

Publisher

Goose Lane Editions

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781773101033

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction