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The Silence : A Novel by Karen Lee White; ProQuest (Firm) is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Karen Lee White holds the torch brightly as a new and powerful voice, her style and sensibility encompassing the traditional and the contemporary. In The Silence, with the Yukon as a canvas, she engages in a deep empathy for characters, emergent Indigenous identity, and discovery that employs dreams, spirits, songs, and journals as foundations for dialogue between cultures. Leah Redsky is a Salteaux/Salish woman living in Vancouver who struggles with identity and the difficult intercultural dynamics of having a non-Indigenous boyfriend and working for the government. Often conflicted, at odds with her past and current life, things unravel and she suffers a breakdown—the unexpected life twist that is the key to coming to terms with her past. Through a diary, she discovers something terrible happened, yet what that is is unclear until she begins to have dream encounters with Tlingit/Tagish spirits who she knew in the north when she lived a traditional life on the land. Leah must find the strength to accept and integrate past and present so she may move into the future. She will find her power as an Indigenous woman, heal her spiritual and psychological wounds through the resolution o

Who reads The Silence : A Novel?

Author

Karen Lee White; ProQuest (Firm)

Publisher

Exile Editions, Limited

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781550967968

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Thriller

Rating

4.5 / 5 (10 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14