Silence is a sense
AlAmmar, Layla2021
Audiobooks
Total copies: 1
A young woman sits in her apartment in an unnamed English city, absorbed in watching the small dramas of her assorted neighbors through their windows across the way. Traumatized into muteness after a long, devastating trip from war-torn Syria to the UK, she believes that she wants to sink deeper into isolation, moving between memories of her absent boyfriend and family and her homeland, dreams, and reality. At the same time, she begins writing for a magazine under the pseudonym "the Voiceless," trying to explain the refugee experience without sensationalizing it -- or revealing anything about herself. Gradually, as the boundaries of her world expand -- as she ventures to the neighborhood corner store, to a gathering at a nearby mosque, and to the bookstore and laundromat, and as an anti-Muslim hate crime shatters the members of a nearby mosque -- she has to make a choice: Will she remain a voiceless observer, or become an active participant in her own life and in a community that, despite her best efforts, is quickly becoming her own?
Main title:
Silence is a sense / Layla AlAmmar.
Author:
AlAmmar, Layla, authorSawahla, Laura, narrator
Work:
Edition:
Unabridged.
Imprint:
[Ashland, Or.] : Blackstone Publishing ; [New York] : Workman Audio, [2021]©2021.℗2021.
Collation:
1 MP3 CD (8 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 12 cm.
Notes:
Blackstone Publishing: ZMeg6c.
Performers:
Read by Laura Sawahla.
System details:
Requires the use of an MP3-enabled CD player or computer.
ISBN:
9781665047968
Dewey class:
823.92F
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
681172