Shifting the Silence

Author: Adnan, Etel

Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest

Published on 10 December 2020 by Nightboat Books in the United States.

Paperback / softback | 88 pages, Illustrations, unspecified
140 x 203 x 9 | 128g

Shifting the Silence does just that, breaks the social taboo around writing and speaking about our own deaths. In short unrelenting paragraphs, Adnan enumerates her personal struggle to conceptualize the breadth of her own life at 95, the process of aging, and the knowledge of her own inevitable death. The personal is continuously projected outwards and mirrored back through ruminations on climate catastrophe, California wildfires, the on-going war in Syria, planned missions to Mars, and the view of the sea from Adnan’s window in Brittany in a poignant often painful interplay between the interior and the cosmic.